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ge — 3 fro Naziam and the'talg of Ge | : be r café Communist friends 5 .- x es) jeft a mark of both of mi ; ‘$wWich they oculd never ene 24 i C’particularly =s it happened fat-. me » # the most impressionable time'of _ «+ their lives—the time of the war, eo, - fe and their youthful marriage. Rind en ~ Was she a victim of whats oot t sa = 538 ro iz a5 a9 ae oa oS ae $2 i J A? = a o a a > & Lad o fi] E a we f nm pt o ad ' ct =] * ” or wm ° ad ~ + There |g no doubt now that is | _. © what Donald did. 4 “i, How far did his wife | we .s ?* : ~tHer decision .. . know what he was doing ? pede OMEHOW- Macl 4 . How else,” except by. may have found. tia sympathy for 2s Nets, | tah about thissz" "Uae ‘ \ ed . . . ' F . ' ; Symperne of her actions be | r “If Melinda shared his polit” - \" explained ? : 1 } ep ¥iews how much easier Te i-She obylously received ‘| understandable her decision: to : messages from hlm apart \| .. toi £ | messages [ono which was |. 2° him would be. : |. sphere would be no unbeatable ©” aid into Swiss banks for | ~ remorse at leaving her mother. = Look at th: evidence disclosed * ~_ There would be no pangg at: : ‘py Hoare. In May last year, «7 renouncing Britain, the lan of « .four months before she dis- © her marriage. and America| the § ‘appeared, she had | pass rt { jand of her birth. photographs taken of her three’; — There would be no teat@ at: -ehildren In the name of Smith. 1e prospect of taking er * - , Little Fergus. watching . .fpree children, to a foreign land : . Lae ~. © another child playlvz - with || There they will always be at “AY Fe Th 4 ep fie Ps 1 soldiers, said: “My dad ja j disadvantage and will for . - pd e Wife.’ |» | sighting for peace,” Could atte er bear the stigma of their, =” id! Ss: married Donalf' | fig but his mother nave told |, Barents’ misconduct, = 9°.” i ” German guns mut-.j ; Vunderstood except 88 @ deliber- 7! : ate choice to bring them up as; in 1940 while him that? 7° rhe y 1? "Gan her decision in fact be é a YS Communists? Can her secret 4 a * . te inousl on 6 i ‘Sot SOE eect e Bewildered a with other refugeep % GAIN, ‘according Ko flight be explained save ont: fdbing from conquered Parig-) ae Ay Section Hoare Bt . political. grounds ? 1S ‘pepore being taken by boat from”! put Jt to her quite. : The real answer is unkn “a deaux back to England. “pluntly, in an’ interview” with But the argument continues « ould {t be that their fight | “her after: Donald’s disappeur- “ Is Melinda as much oy & ance, Lhat She knew he was & communist #5 her husba $d ? -Communist—also that she was | as she perhaps the +De - probably: a Communist ‘cherselt j * peting of his actions all aigng ?;, and was planning to join him. *)-Por is tnis, ‘after all, the, “Melinda professed ‘great ae! , Breatest love atory ever told% i bewilderment and indignation —! 2 . ae ‘at this at the time. 4-7. ian + But in fact she did Jo™ him, al just as they ‘suspected she A ' Would, 9h 2 ak “ry On_ that May «night in 1951: her the game was up? Had he been warned ~ ; that the authorities knew he) ? was a traitor? Pe eee In jf Well - informed friends of % , mine in Washington believe ‘j ‘.that in fact some eople in the : \ British Foreign Office looked = ; the other war while Donald. | : : f . Maclean fled, glad to be rid of “1 senior official who might cause | . . ¢ of the greatest internation stnsations ever known. > ifbrtner believe - the Bh. 2 , Stumbled across a link with hig + * 4) the course ‘of their ‘antl: aun DONES SetnrannOrn Ed Anvestigations. © ~"" eet : 4