Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1933-03-10 … 1933-03-29
- 2) Human profile
- Gareth Jones · Welsh freelance journalist, former foreign-affairs adviser to David Lloyd George
- 3) Decisions
- Left the official route and walked through villages of the Kharkiv region, keeping a diary
- Issued a press release in Berlin on 29 March, printed by the Manchester Guardian and the New York Evening Post
- Affected
- The first signed, named eyewitness account in the Western press
- Gap
- His follow-up is dated Financial News, 11 Apr (EN) or Financial Times, 13 Apr (RU).
EN Wikipedia · Gareth Jones
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1933-03-31
- 2) Human profile
- Walter Duranty · Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times, 1932 Pulitzer Prize
- 3) Decisions
- Called Jones's account a "big scare story" ("Russians Hungry, But Not Starving")
- Privately told the British embassy and Eugene Lyons that as many as 10 million might have died; the figure never appeared in his reporting
- Affected
- US elite opinion in the months before US recognition of the USSR (Nov 1933)
- Gap
- The EN Duranty article dates the embassy remark to 1934.
EN Wikipedia · Walter DurantyEN Wikipedia · Denial
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1933-04
- 2) Human profile
- Maxim Litvinov · People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR
- 3) Decisions
- Wrote to Lloyd George that Jones was banned from ever returning to the USSR
- Affected
- Gareth Jones; killed in Inner Mongolia in August 1935 (NKVD involvement suspected, not proven)
EN Wikipedia · Gareth Jones
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1933-03-25 … 1933-03-28
- 2) Human profile
- Malcolm Muggeridge · Stand-in Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
- 3) Decisions
- Travelled to Ukraine and the North Caucasus without permission
- Sent his reports through the British diplomatic bag; published anonymously and partly cut
- Affected
- A second independent eyewitness record
EN Wikipedia · Malcolm Muggeridge