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V ANSTALMENT> | ¥ THE “MISSL D first spoke of COMMUNISM) / : u Moe, as * ye ys @ be- EE: poet agtualiy gay so in as many Hp ‘ . werds, suggested that he wae. a. VE vious in Caito {Gommunis. . LMS i ame ». Harriet dig not at the tle take | rg Frageous that po Melinda besought the | ‘v;Aimbassador’ to let her § oan a ort ‘husband return te Londen § be for psychiatric treatment. thls outburst serlousiy: im tite past ha had frequently teased her and she isit he might be going ye #0 again, But later en this. OO typ we! : : “gonversation took on 2 mew and we TO ng 4 > a axtremely important fight, ~~ - . ; eT, fin May, 1950, he flew home BR". Yi AR | Than Mactean took day Shoers ONALD had be “and shortly afterwards Melinda ~ = rocked at himself - to have a drink In the local pub, , when Christ: gre a] ay and thera he railed bittert . . and ner _mather took ths ; Rae Eee ee ates ne mocked Christmas withc “Saain, OF. ; ‘he day. ee cs ‘a gn at Himself as a sheap amongst Ni ¥ - BAR, Ge in tie couniry near efigugh ' yordes of clher sheen, gelng of my ew iear. < garly tn September, when London for Donald te go up and 9 London every day with hig ~ It was about this time - ‘they had been apart for nearly Gown to the Foreign Office each black bat and neat black suit and Mour months, Melinda received & Gay. but far eriough away so that. jttie black brief case. He sald to accept the tact that he ‘most curious letter from her hus- té were to reach heme In. thet he wat sick of it all and.” The months of suspense > pand. it was in some way aletter Teasonable time for dinner there | “out adrift.” . mt ae eee ie oeugeesting that could be no loitering in bars. onged te “cut adrift” were changing tno no less The next day, However, Mao Unhappy mon Ancer- 4° hE waa Geil tie Man ior her, and . i an Pine) : i iz taint Ki ; that they would vba wall advised yee eee ee int Chrisimas, “tean seemed his permal seit. - tainty: what should she do {ste part. shaw, in the little wlllaze of And In London Maclean was JOT the best ? ” Qn recelving this letter Melinda Tatsheld, not far from Wester- impressing his friends with az. She could-not meke up he: -deolded to end her Spanish holi- ham, in Kent. , unaccustomed serenity a5 he ,4j ° i day. She took her mother and - Lae hrougn the daily routine of 7nd. She remained con her chitdren te Paris and flew ‘ : work at his Foreign Office desk, stantly loyal to him, so fara ig over to London te see him. : OUTBURST luncheon partlag and even gece the outside world was cor. The talks she had in England — the first two or three months NOMA new very nears | commeds“but-did she shh lov {with fim,’ with some of his at Beaconshaw were among tne end was now very near him ? ' rpiatives, and with the Gsychia> happiest in Melinda's married ; trist. wera probably the most Jife. Gut by ihe spring Maclean Or May 95. 1957 Later events seem te al J'-momentous Meunda had ever began first fo miss the early ' t Topp ed lovin g him entire! “had, for they again obanged the train, and the m & tral eee of her fife. ; sa aethat then to aa tne might if Maclean and Burgess put there is no doubt that fro: il early 1952 onwards she oft own ca é disappeared, The story ; said she, no longer joved hus . and undoubtedly a e tin ef that extraordinary she thought this was the ca: hight was recounted In Jn the spring she spent thr weeks in a London hospit ee ‘ wey, in May, Melinda's sister oe arriek and her asain: ay. 2" she was asked and advised {¢ Sheers came over from Parla to resins : ordinary married life srena a few days at Bescon: with fim. Alter acute heart shaw, and it ‘was during. this ee ee ~ } searchings, Melinda agread. week-end “ital Maclean rae an earlier instalmeai. where she underwent a mir :*. Thay spent.a fortnight together Vealed to me extent w s . . dperation. During. these ratt # In London betere Donald decided was thinking and feeling in an- 9 TODAY is told how’ - tedious weeks she talk « ’ freely to a friend. Melinda gradually pa Melinga admitted ope: ° at she was noJonger in | realised the troth with Macieail” and “Thitended that they would jive together extraordinary conversation with © again, Melinda returned to Parls her and -her-husband. fo fetch the children. First, he openly supported \ “TREF"Hecided they would tive Communism, and although he did fey Be oe . * * re ee,