English: But, of course, this wasn't a story that could be told publicly. The Soviet press, as we've heard, denied that any famine had taken place at all. Unfortunately, there were plenty in the western press who were willing to believe that. There was one man, of course - we've heard his name time and time again today - who tried to draw attention to the genuine situation, and that was Gareth Jones, the journalist from Barry. He had an interest in Russia, as we've heard from the Minister, since hearing the stories of his mother when she lived in Hughesovka, now Donetsk. He visited Ukraine for the first time in 1930 and he returned several times afterwards, and decided to wander on his own, rather than be guided, as a number of other journalists were, on Potemkin trips by officials of the Soviet Union to see what they wanted them to see. And by travelling under his own steam, he experienced directly the impact of this famine on those people living there. He used his voice as a journalist, and, as a journalist myself, I'm so pleased and proud of what this Welshman did for Ukraine and for journalism. He reported back about what he saw, through newspaper articles in the UK, America and Germany. He explained that he had to leave because of the suffering and that food wasn't available. 'So many Russians are too weak to work', he said. He said that he saw people fighting over a piece of orange peel on the floor of a train. 'I didn't visit one village where a number hadn't died', he said. But by trying to reveal to the world the atrocities Stalin wrought on his own people, he drew the attention of the secret police. He was forbidden from travelling to the country again, and, more than likely, because of his journalism, he lost his life, ultimately. Even amongst his contemporaries in the west, he was accused of telling untruths. One journalist with The New York Times, Walter Duranty, said that, because the Kremlin, the headquarters of the Soviet Government, denied it, Gareth Jones's story wasn't true. In his response to him, Gareth Jones said:
Welsh: Ond, wrth gwrs, doedd hon ddim yn stori oedd yn gallu cael ei hadrodd yn gyhoeddus. Mi wnaeth y wasg Sofietaidd, fel rydyn ni wedi clywed, wadu bod unrhyw newyn wedi digwydd o gwbl. Yn anffodus, mi oedd yna ddigon yn y wasg orllewinol yn barod i gredu hynny hefyd. Un dyn, wrth gwrs - rydym ni wedi clywed ei enw o droeon yma heddiw - wnaeth geisio tynnu sylw at y sefyllfa go iawn oedd y newyddiadurwr Gareth Jones o'r Barri. Mi oedd ganddo fo ddiddordeb yn Rwsia, fel rydym ni wedi ei glywed gan y Gweinidog, ers clywed hanesion ei fam pan oedd hi'n byw yn Hughesovka, bellach Donetsk. Mi ymwelodd ag Wcráin am y tro cyntaf yn 1930, dychwelyd sawl tro ar ôl hynny, yn penderfynu crwydro ar ei ben ei hun yn hytrach na chael ei arwain, fel cymaint o newyddiadurwyr tramor eraill, ar dripiau Potemkin gan swyddogion yr Undeb Sofietaidd, i weld beth roedden nhw eisiau iddyn nhw ei weld. A thrwy deithio ei hun, mi wnaeth o brofi yn uniongyrchol sgil-effeithiau'r newyn enbyd ar y trigolion. Mi oedd o'n gwerthfawrogi ei rym fel newyddiadurwr, ac, fel newyddiadurwr fy hun, dwi mor falch o'r hyn a wnaeth y Cymro yma dros Wcráin a thros newyddiaduraeth. Mi adroddodd yn ôl am yr hyn welodd o drwy erthyglau papur newydd ym Mhrydain, America a'r Almaen. Mi esboniodd ei fod o wedi gorfod gadael oherwydd y dioddef a'r ffaith nad oedd bwyd yno. 'Mae cymaint o Rwsiaid yn rhy wan i weithio', meddai. Mi ddywedodd ei fod o wedi gweld pobl yn ymladd dros ddarn o groen oren a oedd ar lawr y trên. 'Wnes i ddim ymweld ag un pentref lle nad oedd nifer wedi marw', meddai fo. Ond drwy geisio datgelu i'r byd y pethau erchyll yr oedd Stalin yn ei wneud i'w bobl, mi ddenodd ddiddordeb heddlu cudd yr Undeb Sofietaidd. Mi gafodd ei wahardd rhag mynd i'r wlad honno eto, a, fwy na thebyg, am ei newyddiaduraeth, mi gollodd o ei fywyd yn pen draw. Hyd yn oed ymysg ei gyfoedion yn y gorllewin, mi gafodd o ei gyhuddo o ddweud anwiredd. Mi awgrymodd un newyddiadurwr uchel ei barch efo The New York Times, Walter Duranty, oherwydd bod y Kremlin, pencadlys y Llywodraeth Sofietaidd, yn gwadu'r peth, bod stori Gareth Jones ddim yn wir. Yn ei ymateb iddo fo, mi ysgrifennodd Gareth Jones: