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~“ Nother-in-law of ty DE “sent on to HEN Melinda and the dren drove off so hurriediy from Geneva orf that sunny Friday afternoon a year ago thislweek it did not for & moment oecur Would not see them again in two days’ time, Dunbar that she te Mrs And even when they did not arrive on the Sunday evening she was worried but not seriously alarmed. Alarm came Monday morning, and it was then, on September 14, 1953, that she took phe lab Mis stens to inform M.L5, Her first attempt to get into touch with the authorities in London was net very success- ful. The British” Consul General in Geneva, Mr. Lame bert, who had been extremely Kind to Melinda, had recently left on promotion te the more important post of Consul General in Paris, and Mrs. Dundar did not kaow his successar. When she telephoned to the British Consulate at 11.40 a.m. spe bad first to explain who ape was—which she did by spying that she was the Donald Naciean, This seemed to strike no chord, and so she asked if she could speak to the Consul -General on an urgent matter, She was told she could nat “see anyone before 2 p.m, as all the senior members of the Consulate had gone to the airport to meet the Lord Mayor of London. Mrs, Dunbar waited in grow- Ing anxiety until after luncheon and then went to the Consulate,’ which was only a short dis- tance from her apariment, : Heperted ee waissing * She saw one of the Consuls snd giold him) that her doughien, Melinda Maclean, a British sub- ject, and her three children were missing. and asked hin to. in fgtm London inimediately, t He said her information would London through . 2, Up | proper channels which (Shp righUy took te be the mails. Mes, Dunbar | replied that Set into touch with MLES before they bad all left London MLA bad asked her 19 let them know urgently if anything out of the ordinary happened. This was urgent, she repeated, - The official said: “Now, Mrs Dunbar, Im sure your daughter will teturn soon. But will pasa on your information through the proper channels.” ‘Mrs, Dunbar returned to her Apariment in despair, For the Aitieth ume she went through her papers but could not fad the lelephone number she wanted. Fisatly she went to the. tele- phane and asked the Geneva exchange to But her thraugh to the Forelgn Pifice in London. AS men arrive ‘Toe cai] came through at once and she asked for Mr. Carey- Foster, to find that he was abroad. But she spoke Yo one of his assistants. 7 She said she was Mrs. Dunbar, mother-in-law af Donald Masiean and asked if the official ta whotn she was speaking knew whe she was, . He did and she seid she had to very Urgently i Forty minutes later a sénior oficial telephoned to hen” She told him that Melinda and the ehildren were missing, that they had gone away for the week-end and had not returned. He said: > Would you like me to come over to Geneva?” Mra Dunbar said she would. Ne cov blied that he would be there as s00n as possible, that she was not to worry, and that it would be better if she tdd no one elve. At this point Mrs. Dunbar had not informed fre Swiss police, for she felt tho it was impera! WAS SHE THERE? Territet—the quiet suburb of Montreux where Melinda said Bhe was week-wending tive that the British authorities who had worked on the eartier Burgess and Maclean disappear: ante should be {ald first, and anyhow she was afraid that if she went to police headquarters she would have to explain every. thing te a junior ofleer whe wauld possibly never have heard, of the Maciean case, Flat evening, tess then a day after Mrs, Dunbar realised that something had happened to Melinda, two senior M.L5 officers few to Geneva, where they arcived§ early on Tuesday morning. . Waiting fo news — Ther went to the flat in the Rue des Alpes, heard Mrs, Oun- bar's story, and, with Swiss police officers, drove off at once fo Montreux, where they spent sost of the “day trying to and either the hotel at which Melinda had said she was to test her Caire friend Robin Muir. or the villa where she had expected to spend the week-end. AUN Tuesday Mrs. waited in agony for ney but» there wis mene. She hag with her by now her daughter Harriet $27 ae ae Nee et tin