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Thomas Cadett was a BBC correspondent based in Paris. He flew into Berlin to cover the Nazi surrender in 1945. He had been seconded to the BBC from The Times and used his job as a cover for his work in the Special Operations Executive's F section. He recruited Georges Bégué

He ended a radio dispatch minutes after the end of World War II with the following words: 'some of us admitted to a certain temptation to pity for the conquered, but each time memories from Warsaw and Buchenwald came crowding in - to bring the realisation that this was justice; that pity was a selfish and sentimental notion.'

His pieces began 'Hello London'. He also covered the trial of Marshall Petain