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eno po aetna Pate EE I would not %. re on ee HEN Melinda and the ‘Rutriedly from Geneva or idren. drove off so that sunny Friday aiternoon a year ago thisbveek it did not for & Moment occur to Mrs] Dunbar that. she Sée them again i two days’ time, ° And even when they did nat arrive-on the Sunday evening | she was worried but not seriously alarmed. Alarm came Monday Morning, and. it was then, on Septenther 14. 1959. that she toak sieps to inform: MLLs, Het first aitempt to get into touch “with ibe sultorities in London was net vere success ful. The British Consul General in Geneva, Mr. Lam- bert, who had been extremely Kind & Melinda, had recently Fett on pronidties te the more important post ef Consul Seeneral in Paris, and Mrs: Dunbar did not keow his ' guttegsor. When she telephoned te the British Covsulate at 11.40 an. whe bad first to exnisin who ape was-which she did hy spying tbat she was the “Mbther-in-law of Naciean, This scenied to strike no chord, and oso she asked if she could speak to the Consul General on an. urgent matter, She was told she could pat “see anyone before J pm. ae all the. senior members af the Consulate had gane. io the airport to meet the Lord Mayor of London. Mrs, Dunbar waited tn grow- {ng anxiety until which. was only a short dis- tance from her apartment, : Reported anlissing ‘ She gaw one of the Consula snd gicld him thst. her daughion, Melinda Maclean, a British sub- ject and her three children were MUSEU. and asked Alin to fgtm London. inumediately, He said her information would “-preper Mew. 2G ER se iy By aor - er — nl a ae Donald. after lunchagn, 294 B8ked if the and then went to the Consulate,” real . ofRetal < SQLS possible, that she was not “semt on to London through. ehannels which | righty took te be the mails... Dunbar | replied that : | before they bad all left London MLS bad asked her to fet them know urgently if anything cut of the ordinary happened. This was urgent, she repeated... The ofcial-said: “Now, Mra Dunbar, [in eure your daughter Will return soon. Bat 2 will pasa on. your information through the proper chandels.* Ars. Dunhar returned fo her aparimest in- despair, Far thes Altieth UUme she went throwe her papers bul could net Bad the lglephone number she wanted: Finally she went te the tele- phane and asked the Geneva exeiange te gut her theangh te the Foreign Piice in London, ALL men AEE The call came throagh at once and ste asked for Mr Carey. Foster, ta find that he was #broad. Hut she spoke to ane of his assistants, . She said she was Mrs. Dunbar, inother-in-law of Donald Masiean oficial ta whos at was speaking knew whe ashe Was x ie did and she ssid she had to urgently i Forty minutes wet into: touch with MIS very Jiter @ séniog | telephoned io ber She tela ‘him. that Melinds ahd the | tuldren were missing, that They » Rad one away for the week-esd and had net returned. He said: ” Would you tke ms {2 come over-te Geneva?” Aire Dunbar said she would, plied Unat be would be there ox te worry, and that i waukd be better if she td no one elee. ” oe ae WAS SHE THERE? Territet—the qidet suburb of Montreux where Melinda raid she wes weekwuding ite that ihe British aullivrities wht bad worked on the earlier Burgess and Maclean dsappear~ ante should be told rst, and anyhow she was aivaid that if ah went to polite headquarters she would Nave to explsin every- thing fe a junior offieer whe weld possibly never have heard ofthe Matlean. case, That evening. less than a day afar Mrs, Dunbar reulised hat something. bad happened ta Melinds, twa senior MLS afeers Rew to Geneva, where they arcived ¢éarly oon Tuesday rar ning. . Waiting fo news _ TheF went “tp the Aat in the Rue des Alpes, Heard Meg, Qun- burs story, and, with Swiss police officers, drove aif at once ta -Mogtrerx, where they spent Siost af the day trying to find either the hotel at- whieh Melinda had said she was to test her Caire friend Robin Muir, of the Villa where she had expectsd te . spend the week-end. : AU Tuesday Mrs. nbar waited in ageny for hex bt a there was mene. She hal with - her by now her daughter Harriet: