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U-L9 (il-22-95) . Boardman fc The Wileof Vhey Met in Paris _— . Belmonr eV ‘e : Her daughter enrolled an’ : Mason oe ; Paris at the Sorbonne in’1938, Mohr : She lived at the Hotel Mon- Parsons Uu r n Cc O a t 7 tana, next door to the Cafe Rosen Ret Fiore, on the left bank’ in Tamm _ i‘ pe Paris, Nease It was at the Cafe Flore, then at the height of its fame as the meeting place of Winterrowd ___ Tele. Room Maclean’ By JOHN H. MARTIN artists, writers and talkers Holloman -——. . many talkers—that Melinda’ Gandy E “little Jost -lamb” in met Donald Maclean, a rising . the Burgess-Maclean van- young British diplomat, one MR. B y ishing act is Chicago - born snowy December night in = oe iGAN Melinda Marling. 1939. Melinda had two children She disappeared about 27 by Donald Maclean in a mohths, after her husband, - Donald Maclean, fled from Britain with the other turn- coat diplomat Guy Burgess, | _ She took along three children. Melinda, undoubtedly a re- Juctant key figure in the in- ternational mystery, was born July 25, 1916, the eldest daughter of Francis and Me- linda, Marling. m her father’s side she came from English stock, and tht Marlings were a well- knbwn Gloucestershire fam- ily. Francis Marling’s father had migrated to the United States as a child, making him a first-generation American, troubled marriage rocked by his heavy drinking sprees, in- luding a so-called “nervous preakcown” when he was tationed in Egypt. Despite he lapses Maclean climbed Pp the London diplomatic ladder and reached the lead- ership of the American Te- partment in.the London Fpr- eign Office. He had knowl- edge of many Anglo-Ambr- ican diplomatic secrets, Was a Communist from college days, and was under surveil. jance when he fled to Russia in the Spring of 1951, Mrs. Dunbar, the mother of Melinda, stepped into this tragedy and tried to soothe Melinda's mother's family, the Goodlets, originali Frenweh ‘Huguenots, we among-the earliest settiers i America etd had won estaby lished positions in public life, mainly in the law and the armed services, Melinda Goodlet, the moth- er of the woman who dis- appeared behind the Iren Curtain, eloped with Francis Marling. ‘They were mar- i. Martin is Foreign Dinec- Wash. Star ried in New York and lived Fr of International News N.Y.H ld there for a time before set- Service ns era tiling in Chicago. Tribune A separation occurred in. . N.Y. Mirror 1928. The following year Mrs. ; . Marling took Melinda, then N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker her daughter, Yet the daugh- peje hey CU TOT e = Revers 0 ter, who could have divorced Babead Mt Donald Maclean upon well- .. . 7.2% oo “310 justified’ grounds of deser. G% Avis) JUN we 58 ; tion, was contacted by a So- ,, 2. 1. ai Abt | viet agent and arranged for Pedne - : “Ss her own defection and that ~ of the children from a home in Switzerland. ¢She fled and left another art-broken mother, Wash. Post and _____ Mr fyi} Times Heraid Wash, News * aged 13, and her sisters, Har- rf and Catherine, to sehpol . The Worker it Switzerland. ; New | eqdet Mrs. Marling returned |ic ; >, Re nies = tlle United States later. apd _ ; fs aed married Hal Dunbar, of New on ae at . York, , - - Date