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adn't any idea where he was. Could Sansom help her find him Sansom thought it unlikely hat he would be in any hotel; fat was more likely, Melinda told him einploved, Embassy that a girl dibrarian mo the = American had Jeft the keys of her flav with them so that they could keep an eye on it while ahe was Sansom on leave, and & colleague went & the fat. Maclean, drunk and Daked, pp ened the door. Behind naked, another man Jay on the bed ; Sansom recoR- nised him as an Enylish homo sexual wh be ho he knew had once en @ Communist. The flat clothes down the Javatory pan, ripped uy chairs Apnarent!. Dp curtains, smashed and ornaments. y the fact that the enant = was American had Irritated Mactean, What want?" asi belicerently, “ Nothing the devil do you ed Maclean more,” replied ‘ansom dryly, and left. Before he made his report “he told lelinda where her husband was and with whom. “I thor fone of Without isn't 8 ught he might have With a man,” she said surprise." * Donald teal homosexuai—it's et that he has to degrade imself from time to tinie.” Next morning she sought a Interview with’ the Bersenal rilish Ambassador, Sir Ronald She told him that it with a nervous breakdown; she wanted per fission for him to return to to see his own doctor, Sit Ronald agreed. He had known Maclean tor nearly 12 pears: aris whi he had been Minister in his en Maclean had fitst oversens dppommmént as Third Secretary. So, on Friday, May 11, 1959, after 18 months in. Csiro, Donald was put on a plane for London, with six months’ leave ahead of him, and instructions to see the Foreign Office con- fulant psychiatrist. The consultant wanted to admit him toa clinic, but Maclean refused to go. Instead, he sought out a Enea’ Psychoanalyst whom he new. Guilt They discussed his drinking, which the analyst ts sald to have thought was catised by a guilt complex, partly due to Donald's treatment of Melinda, Maclean explained he could not bear the sight of her, and this aversion drove him to drink, and, when drunk to homosexuality, But even while admitting his real feelings for his wife, he gould still write tenderiy to er “I am 80 grateful to you, my procet, for taking arf vou, hai had to t up with. withor hating men. MP. think v much of you, my darling, mis vou badly and love you. By November, Maciean was back at work at the Foreign unbelievably promoted 8s of the American Department. He must have had ood friends—or foolish ones, elinda decided that a house outside London would offer fewer temptations for him to drink, so she lived in an hotel in Sevenoaks until they found & suitable house. This| was Beaconshaw at Tatsheld, on the borders of —_ 2 Quoted tn Burgese and Mac- Jean. by Purdy and Sutherand (Secker and Warburg), veLogcn —__ Mohr Bishop___ Casper Calichan — Conrad —____ Felt Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes — Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News ‘The Evening Star (Washington) ‘The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post. The New York Timea The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader _ The Wall Street Journal The National Observer — People's World Examiner (Washington) THE SUNDAY LONDON, ENGLAND Date_January 12, 1969