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HE News Chronicle yesterday | > broke the long silence that has blanketed the world mystery of the Missing Macleans. . / ‘This newspaper announced that the first FULL and ‘AUTHENTIC story of the missing diplomat, Donald Maclean, : and his wife, Melinda, who vanished last yar with her three children, will begin ig this paper next week. ‘ "The announcement rocked the rest of Fieet Street. Rival newspapers, realising with jom- mendable celerity its significance anf the widespread national concern in the Macleag and Burgess affair, groped for any particle of news, however slender, in their efforts to catch up. Particularly they grasped at the disclosure that Mrs. Maclean ‘wrote to her mother, Mrs. Dunbar, after she disappeared last autumn. :- Bold.headlines were flung urgently across front pages: MRS. MACLEAN WRITES~ TO: MOTHER ; MRS. MACLEAN WRITES HOME ;! LETTER FROM MRS. MACLEAN. . But their accounts showed that Fleet Strbey's nkws editdts still do not know what lies behiqd this*most ¢xtraordinary mystery. “ your newsagent now. .LETTER FROM CAIRO | | Today the FACTS about the letter cap be carfied a stage further. Facsimile extracts from it are reproduced on this page. The létter posted last October in Cairo—not from ‘* some- where in Eastern Europe.” , roe It was short and infinitely pathetic. It opened : ‘‘ Darling Mummy,” and said ‘‘ they ’’ were well. She hoped “‘ with all my heart.” that her mother would understand how deeply she felt’ the ‘“‘sorrow and worry” her departure would cause. . . It said they all missed Mrs. Dunbar and asked her to believe that ‘‘in my heart I could) not have doné otherwise than I-have dene The letter—it was written on a single.sheet of grey-blue notepaper—forins only one episode in the story of the Missing Macleans and of fonald’s diplomat friend Guy Burgess, who apcompanied him on his journey into I" unknown. There is much more to tell. IT WILL GRIP EVERYON The whole narrative, related by Geoffrey Hoare, Paris correspondent of the News Chronicle, is one that will grip every reader. Fleet Street wants to know the facts. You want to know the facts, These facts will be given in Hoare’s exclusive series of articles starting next week _.in the NEWS CHRONICLE. _ It is the full story. It is the true story. It will be widely, read not only for its human inter- eSt but for its national importance. ’ It contains some of the most significant revelations ever printed of this strange age in which we live. There will be a tremendous demand forthe ee CHRONICLE from Monday ecricp a uu will be well advised to make sure of reafling a Missing Macleans by placing an order With fos eee aN