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a’ Y their lives—the time of the war, ‘ - peand their youthful marriage ae v Was she victim, of what # George Orwell called the double~, { | upderneatn. renouncing \. thing it stood for? : There 1s no doubt now ~ what “Her decision OMEHOW-, Macl cay have found | a . How else,” except by wy dt + | gympathy for ais beliefs, too , (ean some of her actions be ] Ante ahared bis polithe, - explained ? } eal Views how much \ jer 7 : yShe obviously received: and {pes a eas _ understandable ;her derision e e £2. ’ from 1 000 w! was ‘ * a nf inks -” ‘There would be no unbearable | Paid into Swiss banks for | “remorse at leaving her mother. ~ Look at th2 evidence disclosed There would be no pangg at by Hoare. In May jast year, «: renouncing Britain, the lang of a < four months before she dis- her marriage. and America, thes howographe tee ce of Smilbe | wwe pe would be ne oer © 1 tpe pros! of taki Sf * Little Fel watching. - fee eh ren, ee foregh land - Sg vamocher child | playing with | yhere they will always be at Th 2 eg fia}: | soldiers, said: “ addy is | 4 disadvantage and will for ” i 4 wife” | (hghting for peace,” Could anys er bear the stigma of thelr, oo { HE married Donalp | S05 but his mother nave told |, Barents’ misconduct, "* * § |S Qin” 1940 whtle y Chim uhate 7 ‘Can her decision tn fact, be & 5 German guns muti“ e + understood except 83 & deliber- * . 'ored ominously outside Paris. -. |” Bewildered “ate choice to bring them up as ‘They spent ‘their honeymoon jp : ty Communists? Can her secret # other refuges 1 GAIN, ‘according to © pofi a, field with oth ft a ording. “Alene ‘be explained save on*' ifbing from conquered Parlg-) « ° Geoffrey Hoare, M.1.5 political. grounds ? . fore being taken by boat from” | put Jt to her quite «+ ‘The real answer is unkn ‘deaux back to England. bluntly, in an interview ” with But the argument continu vos ser be that their fight | her after Donald's disappess> » ‘gis Melinda ‘as much » ance, that She knew he was ommuUniss Bs her husbafd ? Bitsmunist—aiso that she was; | ToS, she perhaps the Ln : probably- a Communist ‘herself 3) pring of his actions all aldhg ?/, prooably: & naing to join him. “1 + | Ors, this. “after all, the, “Melinda professed ‘great ‘pi, Breatest love ‘story ever told i ‘bewilderment and indignation pease nee vat this at the time. 4” put in fact she did Jorn him, * fusi as. they ™ puspected she ' ‘ would. ne aon - On_ that May- night in 195 did Donald tel her the game was up ? Had he been warned - > that the ‘authorities knew Di . : Pasa trailor? j Well - informed friends of { mine in Washington, believe % {-that in fact some Begple in the t British Foreign Office looked: ‘the other way while Donald. ; t ’. Maclean fled. glad to be rid of 4 ‘senior official who might caus | re of the greatest internation: nsations ever known. >” «fhriner believe the Bt. sjumbled across & link with hit the course of their sant) investigations. rie cae