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Cee P of av a . ‘ wee Mew job—< Myr. Tolsen . Myr. Boardman... Mr. Nighels.__. 9 ¢ Mr. Belmont. . ” § Me Barbe: od a Mr. Mibe i hfe. Parson. 1M Reon. | 1 Mr. Tommi BATS. S goa _ RM sterrawidl, PBekass LES ee Mx. Hofman. | Mias Goa y . . orn Ts eae »- After sa few days in New York, | He returned to New York in e ORT Ta AE re 24 where, Maclean met Mra Dunbar (the middle of December and took 3 ae ae ge i ee ee - gtd Melinda's aisters for. the : Melinda and the baby back a nr ei he ee . frat time and created a highly Washington two dave before . en 3 tavouraile fpression, he left | Christmas. They lived Tiere for ° ete ta eta ere » Melinda at her mother's houge— (three and a half years, with : lg a ale ae where she remained excett for (Visila lo New York and the east Bi3 a oe one week until her drat baby was coast for holidays. Le ge | ot bora~and went on to Waebing- | The British Embassy in 145 LOSS ars ton. ‘ wae still anderailed and. over- See _ Malinda aid not go fo Nee with worked. ‘and Donald Maclean LEO gales : Ain there because of the digi. | was rapidly making @ mime for . 8 ae BS 1 gulty in finding @ auitable house jinvsell: from acting First See. a ye hee Lyi or apariment (retary he became acting Cout- : Bie re # ee é: ' ‘War-time Washington was PeEHOE Be head of Chancery. : eS spalee! 62% * Lj _tmpassibly overcrowded and his But in their own intimate lite ee pie, «excuse that he sould not find thes were far from happy. tn . ae - anywhere far them. to live Was. sane. 1945. pelinds Want again e “an the suntace, ygible—bot ew XOKK Hog Tepe, On suly n .., SIATH INSTALMENT ante Just. He Kieteest managed 27, her second child, Oomald : dee os _ i quite happily to ive inthe apart- Marling, waa born. And then y 5 i Some HE. early years of | Melinda's. marriéd - Wfe -were spent: : peacefully enough, mm if that adjective Is applic~ | “ able to war-time Londen. ~ m™ ielinds and Maclean were bombed gut af two flats, bul although they very nearly fost . their Hves in the first incident, ‘a after one Njghf in an alr-raid fam = oshelter, Melinda refused to ‘me | S tahe cover * again. i c In TA. however, a new stage | ja * of Melinda's life apened, for fn | a April. Maclean ware appoluted . 4 acting First Secretary. to the * Britison Embassy in Washington, Melinds was overjoyed at the appolsiment, both cS motion it meant fer him, and th ae opportunity it gave cher ie returning to ber own ecatsiry. SS "EWS CHRONICLE” ¢ Lendon B 1=Sh te : a REs [DONALD Ds hacl.2an, ET AL, ESPIONAGE-R. 48 BB SEP 20s * Barkicularly gay time fer her. | there seem ta be any definite.c ge the pray , always hard-up, ; ‘ His curious attitude towards | , the @nancial side of his roarried .: lu ment of 8 colleague, Ieaving Melinda to her own devices to New York, : As all phe had to do. as the weeks went by. was to awell the birth of her child, % wag not # No money | Macitan alwayy exiracrdin- atily casual about money, yarely sent any to Melinds the whole time she was in New York | alihough he knew he was placing. her in the position she detested ef having io live off her mother. The history of thelp married . Ute ia full of occasions on which | he left Melinda virtually stranded . without monay, It was not rag mat he Was Wear Pefion with the fact that be e ‘a, life sprang from..a deeper“ ine world owes tye something ” aut- look. towards Hie at Jarge and. jwhieh made many people think — that he war spoiled—as. is fact. he wes. On Sestember 22, 1944, Melinda went inte hospital where by # Caesarean operation her child, Fergus, wags born the follow day. She and Maclean -were delighted and he went back to - Wianiagion:. where he eventually” Saad ah epariment net ‘ emeernnwenn | eee nance Tet ES } j Melinda, it after another iwo years in Wash- - ington, Maclean was appointed te - Cairo. They saijed for England - at the beginning of September, - 1848, tor horde leave belore going | en to their new post-—and the next. and supremely important | glayé in their life together, At dinner Yt was in Lendoen. that I met them frst 1 was. on leave from the Middle East and one: night Clare, my wits, and Were invited to dine at the house of the then head of the Fereign OMice: department which deals with the Middle East. It was a party of 12 people and we all knew each other, except At dinner I] sat next this delicate-complexianed, Sott-voiced Hille. American | girl ‘gnd sensed that in this gathermg of people who had been in or had..° same concection with the Middle : Fast Melinda felt herself rather gut of her. depth. i found her utterly éharming and with that kind of fragility and defengelessness which tade ‘pearly all men feel they wanted te pratect her, poet Alter dinner Melinda, Maciean . avd 1 kal together and continued 4x {alk about Egypt aad although Maclearh-a tall, rather rerpoie bul by no. Meane un friendly Aguré -~ showed no marked enthusiasm, 3 fet that he was pleased with oft r appointinent. They seemed & TEEN CABS pone Aa tol BY LETTE’ Jun 92 q97g ste aaa oR ee Dee ete el thet: [ (00-3 Pereira, PRE NRO LER