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UriS (il-2é-99)} The Wife-of Turncoat,, Maclean’ By JOHN H. MARTIN IE “little lost lamb” in the Burgess-Maclean van- ishing act is Chicago- born Melinda Marling. She disappeared about 27 mohths, after her husband, Donald Maciean, fled from Britain with the other turn- coat diplomat Guy Burgess, _ She took along three children, ‘Melinda, undoubtedly a re- luctant key figure in the in- ternational mystery, was born. July 25, 1916, the eldest daughter of Francis and Me~ linda Marling. m her father’s side she calne from English stock, and the Marlings were a well- knbwn Gloucestershire fam- ily. Francis Marling’s father had migrated to the United States as a child, making him @ first-generation American, Melinda's mother's family, the Goodlets, originali French ‘Huguenots, we: among the earliest settiers i America end had won estab lished positions in public life, mainly in the Jaw and the armed services, Melinda Goodlet, the moth- er of the woman who dis- appeared behind the Iron Curtain, eloped with Francis Marling. They were mar~ ried in New York and lived there for a time before set- thng in Chicago. A separation occurred in 1928. The following year Mrs. Marling took Melinda, then ed 13, and her sisters, Har- ret and Catherine, to schpol id Switzerland. Mrs. Marling returned }to tie United States later. apd married Hal Dunbar, of New . Xork, They Met in Paris ———. Her daughter enrolled in- Paris at the Sorbonne in’1938, She lived at the Hotel Mon- tana, next door to the Cafe Fiore, on the left bank’ in Paris, It was at the Cafe Flore, then at the height of its fame as the meeting piace of artists, writers and talkers-~ many talkers—that Melinda’ met Donald Maclean, a rising young British diplomat, one snowy December night in 1939. Melinda had two children by Donald Maclean in a troubled marriage rocked by his heavy drinking sprees, in- luding a so-called “nervous veakdown” when he was Htationed in Egypt. Despite ne lapses Maclean climbed ip the London diplomatic ladder and reached the lead- ership of the American Re~ partment in the London Fpr- eign Office. He had knowl- edge of many Anglo-Ambr- ican diplomatic secrets, Was @ Communist from college days, and was under surveil~ Jance when he fled to Russia in the Spring of 1951, Mrs. Dunbar, the mother of Melinda, stepped into this Wagedy and tried to soothe’ her daughter, Yet the daugh~ ter, who could have divorced Donald Maclean upon weli- justified’ grounds of deser~ tion, was contacted by a So- viet agent and arranged for her own defection and that of the children from a home in Switzerland. She fled and left anotier art-broken mother. 'r, Martin is Foreign Direc- x of International Nets Service ' > £ a > Gm 122 yNictols 2077 Boardman 0 Belmont Mason Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease ——-~-- Winterrowd —. Tele. Room Holloman Gandy MR. By CAN « arn) Wash. Post and Times Heraid Wash, News Wash, Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Sige & 2 Date