--- title: The Woman Who Scooped the World description: In the first week of her career, then 27-year-old Clare Hollingworth told the world that World War II had started canonical: https://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/ author: Dominique Rowe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-10T09:40:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:26.703Z article:section: World og:title: Clare Hollingworth: The Correspondent Who Scooped the World og:description: The oldest living journalist with an association to TIME turns 105 og:url: https://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf2e559c1fb14a831/6988a91aab6d77ca0a6ab7d6/clare-hollingworth-14.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: clare-hollingworth-14 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clare Hollingworth: The Correspondent Who Scooped the World twitter:description: The oldest living journalist with an association to TIME turns 105 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf2e559c1fb14a831/6988a91aab6d77ca0a6ab7d6/clare-hollingworth-14.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Correspondent Who Scooped the World > Sponsored content. 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On a blue two-seater sofa, a tiny head and bony freckled hands emerge from the loose rumple of a red and black Chinese silk shirt. This is Clare Hollingworth, doyenne of war correspondents, who turned 105 on Oct. 10, 2016\. She’s the oldest living journalist who has an association with TIME and the British correspondent who, nearly 70 years ago, got the scoop of a century. In the first week of her career at the British newspaper the _Telegraph_ in 1939, the then 27-year-old Hollingworth broke the news that World War II had started. Though she would continue to make her mark on front lines and front pages for more than half a century, this auspicious beginning remains her defining moment. “Clare Hollingworth was one of the greatest reporters of the 20th century,” said Charles Moore, former editor of the _Daily Telegraph_, speaking at a [PR event promoting Patrick Garrett’s recent biography](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/tributes-paid-journalist-who-broke-news-germany-invading-poland-she-turns-104/) of her life. “She got this paper’s greatest scoop.” After the then General Bernard Law Montgomery imposed a ban on British female correspondents on the front lines in Egypt in 1942, the undeterred Hollingworth approached the Americans to get her overseas — which is how she became briefly accredited to TIME, as recorded in the [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0005.html).  Clare Hollingworth, thought to be on her 21st birthday, in 1932 Pearl Freeman Born on Oct. 10, 1911 — the same year as Tennessee Williams, Lucille Ball and Ronald Reagan — Hollingworth was a small child when World War I began in 1914. Throughout that war, the Hollingworth family lived on a farm in rural Leicestershire in central England, where talk of conflict wove its way into the fabric of an idyllic childhood, according to her biographer and great nephew, Garrett_._ Over the course of her illustrious career, the diminutive war correspondent — she stood at 5 ft. 3 in. — would see more than 50 years of on-the-ground action, from her scoops in Poland at the beginning of the conflagration, to her coverage of the complex and bloody Algerian War. Hollingworth worked for the _Telegraph_ for more than 30 years as foreign, China, defense and Far East correspondent and for the _Guardian_ as foreign and defense correspondent, while covering conflicts from Europe to North Africa and Asia, including Iran, Egypt, Pakistan and Vietnam. She also wrote five books: _Poland’s Three Weeks’ War_, _There’s a German Right Behind Me_, _The Arabs and the West_, _Mao and the Men Against Him_, and her memoirs _Front Line_.  Clare Hollingworth with colleagues in Vietnam in the 1970s Clare Hollingworth Collection **The Scarlet Pimpernel** In the year leading up to the start of World War II, Hollingworth was in Poland arranging the evacuation of more than 3,500 political and Jewish refugees to Britain, earning herself the nickname “the Scarlet Pimpernel” from Britain’s press. According to Garrett’s biography, _Of Fortunes and War_, she had a natural talent for “cajoling reluctant government officials, juggling incomplete information, and managing chaotic logistics.” Even so, her stint as a female Oskar Schindler “ended abruptly in July 1939,” says Garrett. “It is not clear exactly why,” but he believes it was down to “complaints about her methods” from British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6. Hollingworth had saved thousands of lives by regularly circumventing British immigration bureaucracy, which due to its heavy vetting process would have left many in the clutches of the Third Reich. Britain, however, felt she had flung the doors open to any number of potential spies and enemies of the state. Within a month of returning to England, she had secured a job as a war correspondent for the _Telegraph_, and almost immediately returned back to the Polish-German border in Katowice, where she stayed with a diplomat friend from the Foreign Office. Knowing that war may be imminent, and bolstered by the presence of a diplomatic flag, she borrowed her host’s car, and “motored off alone into Nazi Germany” to stock up on wine and aspirin. As she drove back along the border, a fabric partition separating the two countries flapped momentarily in the wind, exposing “scores, if not hundreds of tanks” in the valley below. And there was her first big scoop: the outbreak of World War II. Three days later, at 5 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1939, Hollingworth was awoken by the sound of tanks rolling past her window. She scrambled to call her editor, as well as the British and Polish Foreign Offices, each of whom met her news with disbelief. (At this point Poland thought it was still in negotiations with Germany.)  Clare Hollingworth and fiancé, later husband, Geoffrey Hoare at the press center in Palestine, prior to foundation of state of Israel, in the late 1940s Clare Hollingworth Collection **The Algerian War** Although profiles make much of her early scoops, the stories that garnered the most respect from her fellow journalists was her work during France’s bloody and intractable Algerian War from 1954 to 1962\. It also won [her several awards for journalism](http://www.pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=1962-1969-Winners). “Algeria was a hugely complex three-way civil war,” Garrett tells TIME. “It was also just plain dangerous.” Hollingworth would make her way into the Casbah — the epicenter of violence. “For civilians, venturing outdoors in Algiers in 1962 verged on the suicidal,” he wrote in _Of Fortunes and War. “_Up to a hundred people were being killed or wounded every day in shootings.” “Her work there consisted of a long series of analysis and insights on the situation,” says Garrett. “She gained great insight into the war by being one of the only journalists to brave the bloody, dangerous and unpredictable Casbah most days, to meet rebel contacts.”  Clare in a jet, likely British RAF, during her time as Daily Telegraph defense correspondent, sometime between 1976 and 1981 Clare Hollingworth Collection **Another Major Scoop** “Every journalist knows that luck is an important ingredient of success,” said [the journalist Hella Pick](https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/08/guardianobituaries2), speaking in Alastair Hetherington’s obituary years later — Hollingworth’s onetime editor at the _Guardian_. While another of Hollingworth’s legendary scoops could be pinned to being in the right place at the right time, it was also a result of her wide-ranging network of contacts. The revelation of double agent and “master spy” Kim Philby, whom [the BBC recently called](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35943428) “Britain’s most famous spy,” caused a sensation in Britain. Philby was the “third man” to be identified in a group that later became known as the Cambridge Five: five trusted establishment figures who had been recruited as Soviet spies, had attended Cambridge University in the 1930s and had managed to exist undetected for decades. Philby had risen up the ranks of MI6 while siphoning its secrets directly to the KGB. He defected to Russia in 1963 when he feared his deception had been uncovered. Philby inspired Graham Greene, his former M16 colleague, to write the screenplay of film noir _The Third Man_ starring Orson Welles. Hollingworth had encountered Philby several times over the years, and had particularly known that he was close to Donald Maclean — the first of the Cambridge Five to be identified, along with Guy Burgess. Hollingworth and her second husband Geoffrey Hoare had lived next door to the Macleans in Paris. When Maclean’s wife Melinda had said that her husband and Philby were close, Hollingworth “joined the dots,” as Garrett puts it. While it was known Philby had disappeared, Hollingworth discovered the modus operandi of his defection “by accident, I admit,” she told journalist Sue Lawley, on [BBC Radio](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00942p9) in 1999\. “I was looking through a boring magazine about shipping, and I saw that a ship had left Beirut \[where Philby was last seen\] for Odessa at the time he had disappeared.” Hollingworth’s discovery was so sensational that her editor at the _Guardian,_ Hetherington _—_ whom she had been freelancing for since 1963 — refused to run the scoop for fear of being sued for “a hefty sum.” He said the paper “wouldn’t dream of ever using the story,” since “the Prime Minister … had already stated the Philby was ‘not — repeat not — the third man.’” However the _Guardian_ did run the story two months after she had first written it.  Clare Hollingworth poses for a photo in the People's Republic of China in the 1990's. The fur coat she is wearing was abandoned by Melinda Maclean when she defected to the USSR Clare Hollingworth Collection **Her Hong Kong Family** In 1973, Hollingworth was sent to China to become the first Beijing-based correspondent for the _Telegraph_. She stayed there for three years, eventually moving to Hong Kong in the 1980s — when she was in her 60s — as the _Telegraph_’s Southeast Asia correspondent. “When I became editor of the _Sunday Telegraph_ in 1992, Clare was still writing for us, covering China from Hong Kong,” said Moore, speaking in [the ](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/tributes-paid-journalist-who-broke-news-germany-invading-poland-she-turns-104/)[_Press Gazette_](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/tributes-paid-journalist-who-broke-news-germany-invading-poland-she-turns-104/) in 2015\. “I often had cause to draw on her wisdom and knowledge. She is a legend in journalism and was a trailblazer for women reporters.” Now 105, Hollingworth still lives in Hong Kong, in an apartment in clear sight of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC). She has never officially retired — “Clare’s table” at the FCC is still reserved for her every single day, in case she turns up for lunch or dinner. “If they want it, they usually call us and ask if she’s coming down,” says one of her carers, Susan Perez. When she visits — which happens roughly once a month, according to Perez — the back door is flung open and she is wheeled to her special table with her small entourage of carers and close friends. “Her Hong Kong family,” longtime friend and former carer Joan Boivin says. “The FCC is a home from home for its members. It is a knitted community. These people are our family.” Hollingworth always had a crew of loyal friends and carers, says Boivin, among whom was the war photographer [Hugh Van Es](https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/hubert-van-es/), famous for his image of American families trying to escape by helicopter at the start of the Vietnam War. But the onset of macular degeneration in 1995 meant not only that she could no longer work, but she could also no longer read her beloved newspapers. So, over the years, friends morphed into reading assistants, and in some cases such as Boivin, reading assistants became personal assistants, and then finally carers. Fellow FCC member Cathy Hilborn Feng remains in charge of Hollingworth’s care to this day, while Perez and Helen Penaranda take care of her day-to-day needs. (Boivin moved back to the U.S. to take care of her elderly parents.)  Clare Hollingworth Collection Clare Hollingworth meets with a senior British army officer in Hong Kong in the 1980s Clare Hollingworth Collection **Her Legacy** For the young journalists who frequented the FCC in Hollingworth’s later years, her minuscule physical form still made for an imposing figure. “I remember people saying that she was maybe a spy,” says TIME’s Africa bureau chief, Aryn Baker, who began going to the club in 2001 when Hollingworth was in her late 90s. “I never spoke to her because I was too timid. She didn’t invite people to come and speak to her, but her presence was an assurance that it could be done and would be done, that I didn’t have to listen to people saying, ‘Don’t you want to stay in the office and do fact checking?’” On Monday, Hollingworth celebrated her 105th birthday in her home from home at the FCC. Despite having suffered a series of strokes, heart attacks and the onset of dementia, she is still walking, with assistance, around her apartment. “It’s her burning desire to be at the center of everything, that’s what keeps her going year after year,” says Garrett. “She was the first female foreign correspondent to break the glass ceiling so that someone like me can do what I do now,” says Baker. “It’s only fitting that she is still alive to see the election, I hope, of the United States’ first female President.”  Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth listens to British Consul General Andrew Seaton, left, while celebrating her 100th birthday at a party at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on Oct. 10, 2011, in Hong Kong. Laurent Fievet—AFP/Getty Images “Clare is a prodigy, one of those extraordinary people who has not recorded history but helped to make it,” journalist, author and newspaper editor Max Hastings told TIME before Hollingworth’s 105th birthday. “She was a pioneer among women journalists, and among the first generation of women war correspondents, who proved that they needed no example from men either in reporting gifts or courage.”  Clare Hollingworth strolls on a street in Beijing in the 1970s/80s. Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth looks into a battered church, likely during Bangladesh's war for independence in the early 1970s Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth meets with a senior British army officer in Hong Kong, 1980's. Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth with colleagues in Vietnam during the 1970s Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth in a car, likely late 1940s, early 1950s Clare Hollingworth Collection  Gift cartoon from the Daily Telegraph newspaper to mark Clare Hollingworth's 80th birthday. Daily Telegraph  Clare Hollingworth with Life photographer Tim Page in Saigon, June 1968\. EMAILED FOR PERMISSION: http://www.lib.umb.edu/archives/digital/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=564 Healey Library/UMass Boston  Clare Hollingworth and fiancee, later husband, Geoffrey Hoare at the press center in Palestine, prior to foundation of state of Israel, late 1940s Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth on balcony of the British Mission in Tabriz, northern Iran, after the joint Soviet/British invasion of Iran in 1941. Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth with a military figure lounging in arm chair, likely towards the end of World War II. Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth in her official war correspondent uniform, 1940' Clare Hollingworth Collection  Clare Hollingworth poses for a photo in the People's Republic of China in the 1990's. 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