# Harold Cardozo

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**Harold Gordon Cardozo** (1888–1963) was an English journalist, soldier, war correspondent, and author.

During the [First World War](/source/First_World_War), Cardozo enlisted as a private into the [Rifle Brigade](/source/Rifle_Brigade) and on 26 June 1917 was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the [Royal Irish Rifles](/source/Royal_Irish_Rifles).[1] In November 1921 he was serving as a temporary Lieutenant in the [Royal Ulster Rifles](/source/Royal_Ulster_Rifles) and was made up to Lieutenant.[2]

Cardozo’s main career was as a *[Daily Mail](/source/Daily_Mail)* correspondent. He covered the [Spanish Civil War](/source/Spanish_Civil_War) for the newspaper, and [George Orwell](/source/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](/source/Francisco_Franco).[4] This was chosen as the [Right Book Club](/source/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](/source/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

- *March of a Nation: My Year of Spain's Civil War* (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937)
- *France in Chains* (London: Hutchinson, 1940)

## Notes

1. [Cardozo, Harold Gordon Charles, Decorations](https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1262/images/30850_A000285-00141), ancestry.co.uk, accessed 27 July 2021 (subscription required)

1. *[The London Gazette](/source/The_London_Gazette)*, Issue 32505, 1 November 1921 (Supplement), [p. 8693](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32505/supplement/8693)

1. 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](https://books.google.com/books?id=gNZcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA48)

1. Martin Blinkhorn, R. M. Blinkhorn, *Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931–1939* (1975), p. 356

1. [Right Book Club](https://www.publishinghistory.com/right-book-club.html), publishinghistory.com, accessed 27 July 2021

1. *Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War*, Volumes 9-10 (1940), p. 160

1. [Cardozo, Harold G., France in chains (London: Hutchinson)](https://archives.history.ac.uk/heislercollection/18.html), history.ac.uk, accessed 27 July 2021

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