Posted on 01/11/2017 5:10:09 AM PST by Morgana
In early 1939, peace activist Clare Hollingworth arrived on the Polish-German border to aid Jews and other refugees fleeing from the Sudetenland, newly annexed by Nazi Germany. On a brief return to her native England, the 27-year-old Hollingworth — who once professed to “enjoy being in a war” — was hired as a part-time correspondent in Katowice, Poland, for the London Daily Telegraph.
After three days on the job that August, the cub reporter landed one of the biggest journalistic scoops of the 20th century: Hitler’s imminent invasion of Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II.
Ms. Hollingworth, who died Jan. 10 at age 105, had driven into Germany to get a better sense of the impending danger. Without divulging the reason, she asked to borrow a diplomatic vehicle from her ex-lover, the British consul in Katowice, knowing the Union Jack on its hood would get her across the heavily restricted border.
On the return leg, she was passed by dozens of German military dispatch riders on motorcycles.
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True journalism is dead.
Clare Hollingworth dies aged 105: Telegraph correspondent who broke the news of World War II ^
Fascinating article.
That, is a life well-lived.
One could say, “Oh, how sad!” but at 105, it’s more like, “Oh, how amazing that she lived that long!”
I'm so confused!!
The Left has assured me that all the way up through the 1950s, women were not allowed to have jobs, nor were they allowed to have sex before marriage. Apparently (gasp!) this woman did both. I guess maybe Women's Liberation may not have been quite as earth-shattering as communists like Gloria Steinem like to pretend.
and now, all we have is “fake news”
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...an exciting life to be sure. R.I.P.
Today’s reporters would side with the Nazi’s as most are democrats and the democrat party is owned by Nazi supporter George Soros.
The Left DID side with the Nazis when they signed the Non-Aggression Pact with their beloved Soviet Union.
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