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New facts There th Septem! Melind: Maclean’s American-born wife, nd her three young children, ' ho had gone to live in Geneva, also disappeared. Similar Intense investiga: lions were undertaken—with | almost ually megative results, This ,time,. however, the trail was‘ traced to the borders of the Soviet Zone of Austria. i After several months of work 1 uncovered many new fac} throwing light on how, whe 7% and why the Missing Diplo ; mats disappeared, and many lue®’ from which reasonable ieductions might be made, i And ft is, I feel, a vital story; an important story. as welk as a fascinating human | vtory, > i SENTIMENT? ° AT first I concentrated on “ Donald Maclean. What was it that caused him to desert his wife and children. his home his job—that envi- uble job in the Foreign Service which held so brilliant a future his country, and his very if quite different. attempting role in this mystery, I have traced her life from childhood smtsaeons that impelled Petrov tg flee from the iet Embassy at Canberra and which sent Dr, Otto John across the fron- tier to East Germany. The same reasons which led Nunn May and Fuchs to re- main in England and become:! All these men—and prob- ably others. too—men In good oficial positions, Intelligent. trusted, thoughtful, “had » listened to the siren voice of propagandists, Weaklings had come to distrus the way of life in their own countries and imagined, in the case of Burgess and Maclean, that only on the other side of the Curtain were security and sanity to be found. But they were weaklings, with grievous faults in their | traitors there. ' make-up which made them terribly vulnerable and, in- stead of staying where th re and fighting for ther bfliefs, they fied. he case of Melinda Macle And unravel in to her L e through marriage to her last agonising days in the free world, way of life? Could the reason be senti- mental—after, all, aking did renounce his throne for Jove? Was it financial? . Was he in trouble, threatened with expo- sure and disgrace ? The answer lies elsewhere. ‘Through the ages men have ded for their beliefs. Some sti! do, But others caught up in the modern clash of con- ficting ideologies take the easy way out.. They change camps, And that {s what Donatd Maclean did, and with him Guy Burgess. They fied their country and went behind the Iron Curtain for the samen deserted wife who was On the uTWays clouded this modery This investigation, which entailed talking to her friends and relatives and reading the letters she exchanged with her husband and her family, was an essential task in trying to find a clue to a mystery even deeper than that posed by Donald Maclean's own dis- appearance. Why did Melinda, the point of remaking her shattered life, suddenly follow him into exile? She had no ideological con- victions, She was not interested intermationsl~ politics or) ~ affairs. She was ar uncomplex persdh wife and mother.| - taking her world attractive. anormal And yet she wel three small children with her. TRAGEDY T was only by a close examination of the per- sonalities and actions of these {wo pnhappy human beings that a possible answer could be found. And it was in. an attempt to provide thal answer, and to try to clear away the misunderstandings. the exaggerations and the mi: representations which—-heus: tragedy, that I wrote this book. E 3 It was taken in the garden of Beaconshaw at Tatstield just before Maclean disappeared, was then expecting her TOMORROW: The’ story begins nn. Melinda third baby Maclean —_— —_—— The.quarrel over Burgess; Maclean insists on bringing him home for dinner; the disappearance. Vite Sane CRE ded te THE LAST PICTURE TOGETHER SD cuCunennceneneentt