{{Short description|British journalist (1888–1963)}} {{Use British English|date=January 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox journalist | name = Harold Cardozo | birth_name = Harold Gordon Cardozo | birth_date = 1888 | death_date = 1963 | employer = Daily Mail | known_for = Coverage of the Spanish Civil War }}
'''Harold Gordon Cardozo''' (1888–1963) was an English journalist, soldier, war correspondent, and author.
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.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1262/images/30850_A000285-00141 Cardozo, Harold Gordon Charles, Decorations], ancestry.co.uk, accessed 27 July 2021 {{subscription required}}</ref> In November 1921 he was serving as a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles and was made up to Lieutenant.<ref>''The London Gazette'', Issue 32505, 1 November 1921 (Supplement), [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32505/supplement/8693 p. 8693]</ref>
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”.<ref>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), [https://books.google.com/books?id=gNZcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 p. 48]</ref> In his book ''March of a Nation'' (1937), Cardozo told the story of the war from a point of view supportive of Franco.<ref>Martin Blinkhorn, R. M. Blinkhorn, ''Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931–1939'' (1975), p. 356</ref> This was chosen as the Right Book Club’s book of the month for November 1937.<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/right-book-club.html Right Book Club], publishinghistory.com, accessed 27 July 2021</ref>
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.<ref>''Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War'', Volumes 9-10 (1940), p. 160</ref> He stated that France had no freedom left and looked forward to Britain returning France to “her former sovereign power”.<ref>[https://archives.history.ac.uk/heislercollection/18.html Cardozo, Harold G., France in chains (London: Hutchinson)], history.ac.uk, accessed 27 July 2021</ref>
==Books== *''March of a Nation: My Year of Spain's Civil War'' (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937) *''France in Chains'' (London: Hutchinson, 1940)
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