Gareth Jones (Journalist)

Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (* August 13, 1905; † August 12, 1935 ) was a native of Wales British journalist and political consultant, who played together with Malcolm Muggeridge a pioneering role in the detection of the Great Famine in Ukraine ( Holodomor ).

The brilliant student and multilingual graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1930 worked as a foreign policy advisor to the UK afterglow of Welsh origin David Lloyd George in 1931 and traveled a travel ban in Ukraine despite to Stalino, now Donetsk. This industrial town was formerly called Yusowka, after its founder, the Welsh industrialist John Hughes. Jones ' mother had lived as a tutor of the children of his descendants, Arthur Hughes there for a while. 1931 Jones also received from an American book agent commissioned to write a book about the Soviet Union and accompanied the young Jack Heinz II ( 1908-1987 ) of Pittsburgh, the heir to the HJ Heinz Company, on a trip through the country. In January and February 1933 Jones told a journalist from the rise of Hitler as Chancellor - then he went to the Soviet Union, and after his return to Berlin Jones was there March 29, 1933 out the well-known press release that disclosed the Soviet famine. Your disagreed among others, the Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Duranty of 1932 in the New York Times on March 31, 1933 ( with the title: " Russians Hungry but not Starving ").

Jones was banned in a private letter from the Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov Lloyd George any further visit to the Soviet Union. As a result, Jones has published more soviet critical articles, among others, according to a New Year's call on San Simeon with William Randolph Hearst, a contribution to the Hearst press, was charged in the death of Stalin, the Leningrad party leader Kirov. 1935 Jones was kidnapped on an investigative trip around the world in Inner Mongolia by bandits and shot shortly before his 30th birthday. Rumors of an involvement of the NKVD, Nationalist China or the Japanese in the death of Jones could not be verified. The memory of Jones but is today in Ukraine and in Wales by monuments and commemorative plaques.