Harold Gordon Cardozo (1888–1963) was an English journalist, soldier, war correspondent, and author.
Harold Cardozo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harold Gordon Cardozo 1888 |
| Died | 1963 |
| Nationality | English |
| Employer | Daily Mail |
| Known for | Coverage of the Spanish Civil War |
During the First World War, Cardozo enlisted as a private into the Rifle Brigade and on 26 June 1917 was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Royal Irish Rifles.[1] In November 1921 he was serving as a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles and was made up to Lieutenant.[2]
Cardozo’s main career was as a Daily Mail correspondent. He covered the Spanish Civil War for the newspaper, and George Orwell commented on his reports “ the Daily Mail, amid the cheers of the Catholic clergy, was able to represent Franco as a patriot delivering his country from hordes of fiendish Reds”.[3] In his book March of a Nation (1937), Cardozo told the story of the war from a point of view supportive of Franco.[4] This was chosen as the Right Book Club’s book of the month for November 1937.[5]
In 1940, Cardozo was the first British journalist allowed to enter France after its capitulation to Germany and reported for the Mail from Vichy, quickly publishing a new book, France in Chains, to describe the situation of France.[6] He stated that France had no freedom left and looked forward to Britain returning France to “her former sovereign power”.[7]
Books
edit- March of a Nation: My Year of Spain's Civil War (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937)
- France in Chains (London: Hutchinson, 1940)
Notes
edit- ^ Cardozo, Harold Gordon Charles, Decorations, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 27 July 2021 (subscription required)
- ^ The London Gazette, Issue 32505, 1 November 1921 (Supplement), p. 8693
- ^ Tom Jeffrey, Keith McClelland, ”A world fit to live in: the Daily Mail and the middle classes 1918–1939” in James Curran, Anthony Smith, Pauline Wingate, eds., Impacts and Influences: Media Power in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2013), p. 48
- ^ Martin Blinkhorn, R. M. Blinkhorn, Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931–1939 (1975), p. 356
- ^ Right Book Club, publishinghistory.com, accessed 27 July 2021
- ^ Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War, Volumes 9-10 (1940), p. 160
- ^ Cardozo, Harold G., France in chains (London: Hutchinson), history.ac.uk, accessed 27 July 2021