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Article: Welsh journalist who exposed one of the world's great tragedies; Walter Jones' diaries go on display in Cambridge.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone
THE diaries of a daringWelsh journalist, who alerted the world to famine in Stalin's Soviet Union, are to go on public display for the first time.
Journals kept by Gareth Jones, who travelled through Russia, Ukraine and China during the 1930s, will be on view at Cambridge University.
Jones, who wrote for the Western Mail, uncovered the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine. Millions died, but the Soviet authorities - and some rival journalists in the West - denied the tragedy had even taken place.
Jones and fellow reporter ...