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emotive? 2nd tir monotony of an empty, aimless fe. instead decided to marry Donald nd, on the eve of the Hon she wrote to her er “Darling mother, tease don't teel burt that 1 haven: vee Zou kuow before rm ecigion to marry Bonnie Bu eet didnt pow Sonether {2,08 not. We led_very audde: Ap acemed 1g os yy Doease Enenco as the nbasay is liable ¢ to leave Paris tor some Fodroreaken Bede fae one country, ., . I am ao: I haven't given you Dore details abou Dania And I Xnow you must be very Worried and also probably dis gppeinted at ny marrying an id the rest of my. life. We with probably be seat all ‘over the world. Darling. Iam jerribly In love with Donald and am sure there 1 Dever by anyone else. He js T have ever seen Uked to marry, jowh @ach other months now, Ou see Tr ate not bitndly rush: ne into Donald... is 8'x foot four Diond with beautiful bine eves, Sivecther “a beautiful man"* Donaits friends thought, Gute Wrongly, that he “was ing eine racgayalrous 2 inary! ler, ree) make ture she could escape’ Them tie phat she was intellectually his inferior. which, of course. she wras., But of the two, she was fofinitely the stronger character, ‘The British Embassy chapiain, the Rev. Eustace Wade. had sonducted “his last marriage embissy e ‘<¥ chapel Mat April, ao Melinda and Donald were married at A Civil geremony in the Marie of the Palais Bourbon district, The road to Bordeaux was Jammed with refugees. Don and Melinda suent the first Aight of their honeymoon in a fed under fhe, stars. eyook ern ays to g wo Britain, In London they found a fiat, t everything seemed Strange Melinda. “She knew hardiy alyone, the complexities of loniug proved difficult to lersiand, and the summer and autumn of that year also brought German air raids, “-- Dead By winter Melinda was preg. nant, and she decided to have eee ne in America. She id April 1981, Melinda, | sad and dis. appointed, few back to London, the Transatlantic flight, that pow takes hours, took er nore than ee use of delays ia Bermuda and at Lisbo waiting for connections, In London, the Macleans were bombed out of one fiat + and then out of another, On both “occasions they escaped wohurt. Life in warlime London was ferent from tife in pre- we Paris, Ber husband was —_— ene or in The Missing Mao By Geo rer Bose® Meg: n Guy Burgess,,.the S0-between who warned Maclean of his Impending arrest Grinking heavily and then, as always, he became bullying and violent. In Aprit 1944, two months before D-Day, Donald Maclean was pr moled to Furst Secretary at je British Embassy jn Washington. Surely Melinda must have thought, ia her own country near her faithful mother and among ber life-long friends, her Iile would be different, Ii was, but not entirely in the way Melinda expected. She was pre,nant again, and Donald's attitude to her in this siluation was casual, He lefs her in New York in’ hes mother's care while he went on to Washington and shared a flat with a man friend. -Contenr His excuse was that tt was impossible to find a suitable home where they could live torether in the crowded capital, It was an excuse and no more. ‘The embassy could have helped Fil they had been asked, “But he was’ in fact content with dis Nile as a married bachelor. He seidom sent her any monev, 80 thar e crew more and more dependent on her mother, Melinda's first son, Fergus, Was born by Caesarian operas tion on September 24, 1944, in the Harkness Pavilion of ‘the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre. Donald showed his elisht ay fathering a son by finding a flat for the three ot them in Washington. a move that marked his promation to Acting Counseliot and Head of Chancery at the embassy, The end of the war was at Jast in sight. Enormous apd unitharined changes of policy were imminent in the relation- ship between East and West. ‘om ‘ing | “our . gallant Russian allies," Soviet Russia was now the next potential enemy, For the following four year: with Russia desperate to ui stand and overtake . in his ew position document regarding A every level between. the United States, and thing, and he je knew to the aTadoxically, the he became in He knew ever ve everything ussians for, pi Tore successful American he Culme-Seymour, flosest friends, sa e the ag tmouRnt ‘hey would cause was American than pro- Oo Nis way because m—his wife berause 5 mother = in = law od himself fo: DeLoach —__ Mohr Bishop Casper —____ Callahan Conrad Felt Sullivan —___ Tovel 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 Times —_——____ The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader —_——— The Wall Street Joumal _ The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington) THE SUNDay EXPRESS _ LONDON, ENGLAND Dae January 12, 1969