Clare Hollingworth: the woman who got the scoop of the 20th century
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telegraph.co.ukClare Hollingworth broke news of WW2 in this paper and saved thousands of anti-Nazi dissidents. Charles Moore, former editor, pays tribute I heard Clare Hollingworth before I saw her.
This was because she was very small and her voice was very carrying. In the Telegraph’s crowded newsroom at the paper’s old offices in Fleet Street, she was invisible among the male journalists, but wholly audible.
By then – 1979 – Clare was back in Britain as the paper’s defence correspondent. Most people of her age – nearly 70 – would have welcomed a desk-bound job.
For Clare, however, it was almost an imprisonment. Her life had been filled by war and diplomacy, the former being what happens when the latter breaks down.
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