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adn't any idea where he was. Could Sansom him ? help her find Sansom thought it aniikely hat he would be in any hotel: al was more likely, Melinda told him that employed in A girl Jibrarian the American Embassy had left the keys of her flat with them &0 that they could keep an eyé on It while ane was on leave. Sansom and a collearue went to the flat, Maclean, drunk and Daked, opened t iT, also nake lay on the bed 3] him as an Enzlish homo - s€xual who he been a Communist. Was ruined. Th smashed with he door. Behing d, another man ? Sansom recog- knew had once The flat @ bath had been & marble shelr, They had jammed drawers of clothes down t} Tipped up Chairs and Apparently the tenant was Curtains, je lavatory pan, Smashed ornaments. fact that the American had irritated Mactean, “What the (Want? asked belirerently, “ Nothing We mMAd® his more,” ansom dryly, and left, devil do you Maclean replied Before report he told elinda where her husband was and with whom, “I thought he might have Bone off with a man," she said without isn’t & real just that he f£urprise, “ Donald homosexual —it's has to degrade aimself from time to tine.” Next morning she sought a Personal Interview with’ the ritish Ambassador, Bir Ronald Campbell, Donald was ill breakdown ; mission for She told him that with @ nervous she wanted per- him to return to ndon to see his own doctor, Sit Ronald a greed. He had known Maclean for nearly 12 fars; he had ‘aris when M been Minister in aclean had his + first oversens nt as Third Becretery Pore 60, on Friday, May 11, 1950, after 18 months in Cairo, Donald was put on a plane for London, with six montis’ leave ahead of him, and instructions to see the Foreign Giice con, rullant psychiatrist. The consultant Wanted to admit him toa clinic, but Maclean refused to go. Instead, he sought ou a roman psychoanalyst whom he new. Guiit They discussed nis drinking, Which the analyst is sald to have thought was cased by a guilt complex, partly due to Donald's treatment of Melinda, Maclean explained he could not bear the sigh, of her, and this aversion drove him to drink, and, when drunk to homosexuality. But even while admitting his teal feelings for his wife, he could still write tenderiy to her :— “I ain 80 grateful to you, my sweet, for taking all you haup fod to put up with” witho: hating me. 2. think ver much of you, my darling, mis ou badly and love you.,. J By November, Maclean was back at work at the Foreign Office — unbelievabty Promoted es head of the American Department. He must have had ¥ood friends—or foolish ones. elinda decided that a house outside London would offer fewer temptations for him to drink, so she lived in Bn hotel in Sevenoaks until they found & suitable house. This was Beaconshaw at Tatsfield, on the borders of Se * Quoted tn Burgess and Mec- lean. by Purdy and Sutherland (Secker and Warburg), bsaneemmeneeteend Rn ee Alene PR a es “pee we a eee “ Ce a ee AN ne Tet ae ae MeLOICA Mohr Bishop Casper Callshan Conrad Felt_w Gale Rosen Sullivan Tave! — Trotter Tele. Roam Holmes Gandy ae The Washington Post Times Herald eee The Washington Daily News The Evening Star {Washington} The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post ee The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader ee The Wal! Street Journal ee The National Observer ns People's World Examiner (Washington) THE SUND x LONDON, ENGLAND Janu Date ee a ote . somet Aad - in Fe