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On 31 August 1939, Hollingworth had been working as a ''[[The Daily Telegraph|Daily Telegraph]]'' journalist for less than a week 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.<ref name="scoop">{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Malcolm|title=Second World War 70th anniversary: The Scoop|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6111610/Second-World-War-70th-anniversary-The-Scoop.html|work=[[Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 August 2009|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20121116191853/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6111610/Second-World-War-70th-anniversary-The-Scoop.html|archivedate=16 November 2012}}</ref> 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 the window of her room to capture the sounds of German forces.<ref name="scoop"/> Hollingworth's eyewitness account was the first report the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|British Foreign Office]] received about the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|invasion of Poland]].<ref name=addley/>
In August 1939, Hollingworth had been working as a ''[[The Daily Telegraph|Daily Telegraph]]'' journalist for less than a week 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.<ref name="scoop">{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Malcolm|title=Second World War 70th anniversary: The Scoop|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6111610/Second-World-War-70th-anniversary-The-Scoop.html|work=[[Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 August 2009|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20121116191853/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6111610/Second-World-War-70th-anniversary-The-Scoop.html|archivedate=16 November 2012}}</ref> While driving along the German–Polish border on 28 August, 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 the window of her room to capture the sounds of German forces.<ref name="scoop"/> Hollingworth's eyewitness account was the first report the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|British Foreign Office]] received about the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|invasion of Poland]].<ref name=addley/>


During the following decades, Hollingworth reported on conflicts in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], Algeria, China, [[Aden]] and Vietnam.<ref name=addley/> In 1946 she was among the survivors of the [[King David Hotel bombing]] in Jerusalem that killed 91 people.<ref>{{cite news |last=Segev |first=Tom |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112310.html|title=Scoop of the century |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=4 September 2009}}</ref>
During the following decades, Hollingworth reported on conflicts in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], Algeria, China, [[Aden]] and Vietnam.<ref name=addley/> In 1946 she was among the survivors of the [[King David Hotel bombing]] in Jerusalem that killed 91 people.<ref>{{cite news |last=Segev |first=Tom |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112310.html|title=Scoop of the century |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=4 September 2009}}</ref>

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Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Use British English Vorlage:Infobox person Clare Hollingworth (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author, who was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".[1] A rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, she spotted German forces massed on the Polish border, while travelling from Poland to Germany. She later helped rescue thousands of people from Hitler's forces by arranging British visas.[1]

Early life

Hollingworth was born in Knighton, south of Leicester, in 1911.[2] In the First World War, her father took over the running of his father's footwear factory, and they moved to a farm near Shepshed.[2]

After leaving school, Hollingworth went to a domestic science college in Leicester, and became engaged to the son of local family known to her own, but instead of marriage, went to work as secretary to the League of Nations Union (LNU) Worcestershire organiser, then won a scholarship to London's School of Slavonic Studies, and later, a place at Zagreb University to study Croatian.[2]

Career

In August 1939, Hollingworth had been working as a Daily Telegraph journalist for less than a week 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.[3] While driving along the German–Polish border on 28 August, 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 the window of her room to capture the sounds of German forces.[3] Hollingworth's eyewitness account was the first report the British Foreign Office received about the invasion of Poland.[2]

During the following decades, Hollingworth reported on conflicts in Palestine, Algeria, China, Aden and Vietnam.[2] In 1946 she was among the survivors of the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem that killed 91 people.[4]

John Simpson described her as the reporter who first interviewed the Shah of Iran, and, decades later, who last interviewed him too: "She was the only person he wanted to speak to".[5]

She was 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).

Personal life

Hollingworth was married twice. She married Vandeleur Robinson, the League of Nations Union (LNU) regional organiser in the south-east, in 1936[2] and they divorced in 1951. She then married Geoffrey Hoare in 1951. Hoare died in 1965. Hollingworth had a stepdaughter from her second marriage.[6]

By 1939, Hollingworth was selected to fight the parliamentary seat of Melton for the Labour Party in the general election that was due to take place by 1940.[7] Because of the outbreak of war the election was postponed, and by the 1945 election a different Labour candidate had been chosen.

From the early 1980s, Hollingworth lived in Hong Kong. For a long time she was a near-daily visitor to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong, where she was an honorary goodwill ambassador.[2] She celebrated her 100th birthday there on 10 October 2011.[8]

In 2006 Hollingworth sued her financial manager, fellow Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club member Thomas Edward Juson (also known as Ted Thomas), for the removal of nearly $300,000 from her bank account.[9] Juson defended his actions as investments, but agreed to repay the money in 2007. He had not yet done that in late 2011.[10][11]

In 2016, Hollingworth's great-nephew, Patrick Garrett, published a biography of her, Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, First of the Female War Correspondents.[12] In October 2016 in Hong Kong she marked her 105th birthday.[13][14] She died there on 10 January 2017.[1]

Bibliography

References

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  1. ↑ a b c Clare Hollingworth: British war correspondent dies aged 105 In: BBC News, 10 January 2017 
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Esther Addley: A foreign affair In: The Guardian, 16 January 2004 
  3. ↑ a b Malcolm Moore: Second World War 70th anniversary: The Scoop (Memento des Originals vom 16 November 2012 im Internet Archive) In: Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2009 
  4. ↑ Tom Segev: Scoop of the century In: Haaretz, 4 September 2009 
  5. ↑ Joy Lo Dico: The woman who broke the news of WW2, 9 October 2015, S. 16 
  6. ↑ Clare Hollingworth: Front Line. Jonathan Cape, 1990, ISBN 0-224-02827-8.
  7. ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  8. ↑ Annemarie Evans: WWII scoop journalist Clare Hollingworth turns 100 In: BBC News, 10 October 2011. Abgerufen im 12 October 2011 
  9. ↑ HK reporter famous for World War II scoop in legal spat In: The Taipei Times, 4 May 2006, S. 5 
  10. ↑ Emma Hartley: Doyenne of war correspondents parted from life’s savings In: Daily Telegraph, 22 October 2009. Abgerufen im 13 October 2011 
  11. ↑ Called to Account In: China Daily, 12 October 2011. Abgerufen im 13 August 2013 
  12. ↑ Joyce Lau: Book review: the life of Clare Hollingworth, war correspondent In: The South China Morning Post, 26 August 2016 
  13. ↑ BBC World News, 11 October 2016
  14. ↑ Peter Foster: Clare Hollingworth, the foreign correspondent who broke news of Second World War, turns 104 In: Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2015 
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