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There 6 ype my mysJery stood until Septem , when Mra Melinda Mecklan Donald Maclean’s American-born wife, and her three young children, : why gone to live in teneva, Baise disappeared, Similar intense investiga: ( lions were undertaken--with almost be itea negative: results. his time,. however, | the trail was traced to the‘ Theaednee at fh Sieine Fara of BGTaCES wk Fhe md anew SAPASS Austria. |, weemtaaeoné that imnoalled Patray fiee from the Soviet Embassy at Canberra and whieck sent Dr.. Otto John across the tron- 4 { 4 i After several months of work ° L uncovered many new Lact. 7 throwing light on how, whet They had come to distrus tier to East Germany. The game reasons which led Nung May and Fuchs to re , main.in England and become: traitors there. All these men—and = prob- ably others. too—men in good oflicial positions, Intellgent, trusted thoughtful, had listened to the siren volce of propagandists eV PoR aa ae Weaklings and why the Missing Diplo ; the way of Nfe in their own inats disappeared, and many ‘lue®’ from which reasenable * jeductions might be made, And it is, T feel, a vital atory! an important story. as ¢ welk as a fascinating human “tory. ° oe eee ee ee ee ee le SENTIMENT? AT first I concentrated on: 4™ Donald Maclean. What was it that caused nim to desert his wife and. children. his bome His job—-that envi- uble job in the Foreign Service which held so brijliant. a' future --his country, and his very wav of life? Could the reason be senti- mental—aftet, all, aking did renounce his throne for jove ? Was if financiat? - Was he in troukte, threatened with expo sure and disgrace ? The answer Hes elsewhere. Through the ages men have ded for their beliefs. Some sti da, But others caught up in the- modern clash of con- flicting ideologies take the easy way out,. They change camps, And that is what Donald: fir Alaclean did, and with him Guy Burgess, They fied their country and went behind the Iren Curtain for the Fenian 1 x * stead of staying where th re. and fighting for the r, St BR v4 entailed talking to countries and imagined. in the case of Burgess and Maclean, that only on the other side of the Curtain were security and ganity to be found, But with grievous faults in their make-up which made’ them ferribly vulnerable and, in- bé@lefs, they Hed. he case of Melinda Macle if quite different. And in attempting to unravel her role in this mysiery, I have {raced her life from childhood through marriage to her jast agonising days in the free world, This investigation, which her friends and relatives and reading the letiers she exchanged with her husband and her family, was an essential task in trying to find a clue to a mystery even deeper than that posed by Donaid Maclean’s Own. dis- appearance. Why did Melinda, the deserted wife who was On the point of remaking her shattered suddenly follow him into exile ? ' She had no ideological con- vietians, She was-not interested international ~ pelities or world affairs. She was an attractive. uncompiex person, agnormal wife and mother. And yet she went—taking her three small chikiren with her. TRAGEDY [t was only byY a close examination of the per- sonalities and actions of these two pnhappy human beines that a possible answer could be found. And it was in an attempt to provide that answer, and to iry to clear away the misunderstandings. - the exaggerations and the mis- "% fia ma representations whic ‘clouded this modery — tragedy, that I wrole this book. they were weaklings, | THE LAST PICTURE TOGETHER It was taken in the garden of Beaconshaw at Tatsfield * just before Maclean disappeared, was then expecting her third baby ees mY OMORROW: The.quarrel over Burgesa; NAA AAAIANAAAAMAAL ; ee 7” da Seas sR oe fate cenke Sete Maclean insists on bringing Fe? ae Cee ert) the disappearance. a ree! ag een aaa tp ince” ie PA Pk arrears rer ame far dinn Home for Guin ee mama! The? story. begins Melinda Maclean ALN AAA AAA tt