Clare Hollingworth: The Reporter Who Broke the News of World War II
David A. Graham
The Magic of The Telegraph’s World War II Obituaries That work brought her a measure of fame — she arranged the evacuation of more than 3, 500 Jews and dissidents, earning the moniker “the Scarlet Pimpernel,” after Baroness Orczy’s novel, according to Time — but she was abruptly sacked in July 1939, apparently because British intelligence felt she was granting visas to too many people who were either politically or ethnically “undesirable.
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