Clare Hollingworth WW2 correspondent circa 1939
by David Lee Guss
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Clare Hollingworth WW2 correspondent circa 1939
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David Lee Guss
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Clare Hollingworth (born 10 October 1911) is a British journalist and author, who is noted as the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II.
On 31 August 1939, Hollingworth had been working as a journalist for less than a week for The Daily Telegraph when she was sent to Poland to report on worsening tensions in Europe. Hollingworth persuaded the British Consul-General in Katowice, John Anthony Thwaites, to lend her his chauffeured car for a fact-finding mission into Germany. While driving along the German-Polish border, Hollingworth chanced upon a massive build-up of German troops, tanks and armoured cars facing Poland.
The following morning Hollingworth called the British embassy in Warsaw to report the German invasion of Poland. To convince doubtful embassy officials, Hollingworth held a telephone out of her room window to capture the sounds of German forces. Hollingworth's eyewitness account was the first report the British Foreign Office had about the invasion of Poland.
During the following decades, Hollingworth reported on conflicts in Palestine, Algeria, China, Aden and Vietnam. In 1946 she was among the survivors of the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem that killed 91 people.
John Simpson described her as the reporter who did the first interview with the Shah of Iran, and, decades later, the last interview with him too: 'she was the only person he wanted to speak to.'
She is the author of five books: The Three Weeks' War in Poland (1940), There's a German Right Behind Me (1945), The Arabs and the West (1950), Mao (1985), and her memoirs, Front Line (1990, updated with Neri Tenorio in 2005)."
Claire passed away in January 2017 at 105.
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