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Gareth Vaughan Jones Papers Russia -- Description and travel.
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Impressions of Germany

Diary of a trip to Cologne to gather information about the Schleicher government on behalf of Ivy Lee, later drafted into a report titled "Impressions of Germany, 1932."

Malcolm Muggeridge, publications on Russia

The papers include a photocopy of a letter, 17 April and 29 September 1933, from Malcolm Muggeridge to Gareth Jones; a draft of a chapter by Muggeridge entitled 'Winter in Moscow', 1934; and newspaper cuttings, 1933-1934, of articles by Muggeridge about the situation in Russia.

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-1990.

Memoranda on Germany and Russia,

The items include a typescript memorandum, 20 December 1932, by Gareth Jones entitled, 'Impressions of Germany, December 1932'; a printed memorandum, 12 July 1933, to the General Secretary of the World Monetary and Economic Conference on the situation in Russia; and a long typescript memorandum, [c. 1933], by Gareth Jones entitled, 'The General Survey of Agricultural Conditions in USSR'.

Photocopies of some Lloyd George Papers,

Photocopies of documents taken from the Lloyd George Papers at the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords, including memoranda, 1930-1932, entitled 'The Prospect of the Five-power Naval Conference'; 'The Empire after the War', 'Soviet Russia', 'Disarmament', and 'Imperial Conference'.

Press cuttings: the USSR,

Most of the cuttings are of articles by Gareth Jones describing conditions in Russia following his visits to the country, many of them on the Five Year Plan of economic recovery introduced by Stalin and the terrible famine in the country the holodomor). There are also a few cuttings on the United States and Hitler's Germany.

Press cuttings,

The folder is marked 'American articles', and many of the cuttings are of articles written by Gareth Jones during his 'Round the World' tour in the spring of 1935. There are also a few cuttings during previous years written on Russia and Germany.

Russia,

Press cuttings, 1933, of articles and notes for publication by Gareth Jones on the situation in Russia, together with copies of photographs taken in the Ukraine; a typescript of a chapter entitled 'Why do we suffer so much', an account of the famine in Russia known as the Holodomor, presumably the work of Dr Siriol Colley; and a few items, dated 1935, associated with commemorating Gareth Jones's life following his death.