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eee te and Lit monotony of an empty. aimless Mfe, instead she decided to marry Donald and, on the eve of the evVacua- Hon ahe wrote to her — ” Darting mother, Please don't tee} hurt that Thaven's let you know before about decision to tarry Deonaia Bur 1 honestly didn't know whether to or not, We decided werv auddenly because to have to leave FPdtorsaken ttle place © COUNLY, | I am sorry I Fou pore detalls a must be vory WolTied and also probably dis- *ppolnted at my Marrying an But that doesn’t mean I will have te setts down in England for the rest of my. life. probabiy be sent all world. . haven't given about Donald Darling. I am terribly In fove - with Donald and &m sure there whl Dever be anyone else, He is the onty finan l have ever seen I_would have Uked to marry, We ba khown e@ach other nine months now, sa Ou gee Tr ate not bitndly rushing into Donald . . + ta alx foot four blond with beautify! blue eyes, altoge & dBesutirul man" Donakt's friends thought, wte wrongly, that he was Ply being chivalrous in er, largely to maka ure she could escape. ‘They felt thet she was intellectually his . j of course, she Was. But of the two, she wae infinitely the stronger character, The British Embassy chaplain, 4 ve Hustace Wade, had Ssonducted SS last marriage aervics in the embussy chapel that April, ao Melinda and Donald were matricd at pn civ! Ceremony in the Marie of the Palais Bourbon district, The road to Bordeaux was Jammed with refugees. Donald and Melinda spent the first nleht of their Honeymoon in a fleld under the Stars. It took em 10 days to get back to Britain, In London they found a flat, t everything seamed strange Melinda She knew hardly awyone, the complexities of toning proved Gfficult to erstand, and the summer and autumn of that Fear also brought German air raids, + - Dead By winter Melinda was preg- nant, and she decided to have the child in America,. She walled In & convoy and stayed with her mother near New York. ® child was born deaq in April 1941, Melinda, sad san dis- fod appointed, few back to London @ Transatlantic fi ht, that how takes hours, took than six weeks pecause im Bermuda and at Lisbon Wwalting for connections, Im London, the Macleans Were bombed out of one fiat + And then out of another. On n ar eons they escaped Life in wartime London was from life in pre. Yay different wer Paris, Her husband Was : . GWT in The Missing Mao anh Geoffrey Hoare (Ca We will. over the i Guy Burgess... the So-between who warned Mactean of his Impanding arrest drinking heavily ang then, as always, he became bullying and violent. In April 1944, two months fore D-Day, Donajd Maclean Was promoted to First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington. Surely Melinda must have thought, in her own couniry, vear her faithful mother and among her life-long friends, her lite would be different. Js was, buat not entirely in the way Melinda expected, She was preynane 4galn, and Donald's altitude to her in this situation was casual. He left her in New York in her mother’s care while he went on to Washington and shared a fiat with a mag friend. -Contenr His excuse was thay tt wag inipossible to fing « Siutable home where they could five tomether in the crowded capital, It was an excuse and no more, The einbassy could have helped —if they had been asked, But he was in fact content with his life as a married bachelor. He seldom sent her any monev, Bo that she crew more and more dependent on her mother, Melinda's first son, Fergus, Was born by Cacsarian opera- tion on September 24, 1944, in the Harkness Pavilian of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre. Donald showed his delight at fathering a son by finding a flat for the three af them ‘in Washington, a move that marked his promotion to Acting Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the embassy. The end of the war was at last in sight.. Enormous and unimagined changes of policy were Imminent in the relation. Ship between East and West, From ing “our . gallant Russian allies." Soviet RSsia WAS now the next potential enemy, For the ree following four years, . wit Ussia desperate to undar- atand and overtake ‘Alnerican atomic tesearch DOnala Maclean in his new position Saw every document regarding relations of every level between Britain, the United States, and Canada. He koew everything, and he gave everything he knew to the ussians for, Paradoxically, the more successful he became in America, the mors anil- American he grew, CulmeSeymour, one of his closest friends, says “ Donaid hated the Americans, and always thought they would tause next world war. 1 really think he was more = anti- Americano than bro-Communist," Or was he this Way because his wife and her generous mother were AmMerircan, and in hating their country he was really voicing his hatred for them—his wife because she was the stronger character, his mother - in - law because he despised himself for taking her money ? DeLoagch Mohr Bishop. Casper Callahan Conrad Felt_w Gale Rosen Sullivan WH Tovel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy v The Washington Post Times Herald ee The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post ae The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) — The Daily World The New Leader ee The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington) THE SUNDAY EXPRESS LONDON, ENGLAND Date__January 12, 1969