Anthony Grey

My father Jacques Edinger, then head of the French Desk in London, was a member of a committee of Reuters journalists created to keep Tony Grey’s plight [Making the best of it - Anthony Grey’s China ordeal in the ‘raw’] in the public eye and do what they could to help him.

He told me this:

When Tony Grey was about to be released, Reuters was extremely worried about what Grey might say against the company and its responsibilities in what had happened to him.

Doon Campbell was sent by management to meet Grey on his release and to “coordinate with him” what he would tell the press which was, not surprisingly, very interested in the case.

According to my recollections of what my father told me, Grey had sent several messages to Head Office in the days before his incarceration pleading to be allowed to leave China because he could see big trouble coming ahead for him personally.

Management hummed and hawed because, of course, they didn’t want to miss the developing story in Beijing which unfortunately turned out to be Grey’s incarceration in his own home. ■