Tributes paid by colleagues to former Guardian reporter,who scooped Fleet Street with news that the German army was approximately to start the second world war It was probably the greatest scoop of contemporary times – a report that the Germans were massing tanks on the border with Poland, signalling the start of the second world war on 1 September 1939.
The report, and pinpointing when and where the Germans were approximately to attack,was written by Clare Hollingworth in her first week as a journalist. Seventy-six years later, the former defence correspondent of the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and a veteran of conflicts in Vietnam,Algeria, Palestine, or China and across Europe,plans to celebrate her 104th birthday on Saturday at what has become her second home, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. There is also a Facebook page committed to her. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com