--- title: Google Celebrates Clare Hollingworth's 106th Birthday description: Google dedicated its homepage cartoon to Clare Hollingworth, the first journalist to report the outbreak of World War II canonical: https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-10T05:44:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:53.002Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Clare Hollingworth og:description: The legendary journalist was the first to report the outbreak of World War II og:url: https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36611f19b1ae31e1/6988e12b196cf416690423f9/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x-1.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 818 og:image:height: 460 og:image:alt: clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x (1) og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Clare Hollingworth twitter:description: The legendary journalist was the first to report the outbreak of World War II twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36611f19b1ae31e1/6988e12b196cf416690423f9/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x-1.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary War Correspondent Clare Hollingworth > Sponsored content. 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During the British reporter’s first week on the job for _The Telegraph_, the then 27-year-old got what’s widely known as the scoop of the century: the outbreak of World War II. In late August of 1939, Hollingworth borrowed a car from a friend and ventured across the Polish boarder into Nazi Germany alone. On her return, she saw hundreds of German tanks stationed in a valley. Three days later on Sept. 1, Germany invaded Poland. When the British embassy in Warsaw responded with disbelief, she held the phone receiver out the window so they could hear it for themselves. **Read more:** [_The Correspondent Who Scooped the World_](http://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/) Hollingworth went on to lead an eminent and peripatetic career, covering the front lines of the Algerian War, exposing the double agent Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five, and being the first to interview the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Hollingworth [passed away ](http://time.com/4630092/clare-hollingworth-obituary/)in January in Hong Kong. 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