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Gareth Jones

Journalist, former secretary to David Lloyd George, who reported a famine in the Soviet Union in March 1933.

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Russians Hungry, But Not Starving (1933) named as the author of the "scare story" Scholarship & press 1

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Russians Hungry, But Not Starving, by Walter Duranty (New York Times, 31 March 1933), as reproduced on a family website, garethjones.org, a website run by relatives of Gareth Jones, reproducing the text of The New York Times article, 31 Mar 1933. Scholarship & press
Its author is Gareth Jones, who is a former secretary to David Lloyd George and who recently spent three weeks in the Soviet Union
Gareth Jones's press statement of 29 March 1933 and his letter of 13 May 1933, as quoted on a family website, garethjones.org, a website run by relatives of Gareth Jones, quoting his statement and letter, 29 Mar 1933. Scholarship & press
Gareth Jones made his famous press release on the 29th of March 1933 and this was printed in many American and British newspapers
Everywhere was the cry, 'There is no bread. We are dying.
I stand by my statement that Soviet Russia is suffering from a severe famine.

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