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DeLoach } “y Mohr ow Bishop or Rome or other Evropean Casper Foon with chintzy curtains and Capitals. “when the revolution Cc Pp Somme bils and pieces of turni- comes.” when all world aiahan ture brought-from London. This wdpild' be Communist, -" Conrad oO had two divans where hey would repeat again snd on — Bo: ald and Melinda slept. They ggpin how they h foofed a - Felt hag to wait until any guesis ev@ryone: they dia not adrfit 7 . oo Senet hac’ gone before they could go they bad aleo fooled than Gale ta bed thainselves. selves. Their converaation d a Their ¢ sons shared a the_unreality of their lives. theg—crete traltore arteries AOseh second r Their dauchter Melinda and Donald had ag hardened by drink,” “minds Sulli Melinda, n&knamed Pink Rose dacha——a country cottace—a atrophied by deceit, could easily uiltvan ww a8 a child,twas more fortunate, ¢ouple of hours’ journey from become an’ embarrassment to Tavel for she had the third room on Moscow. After a while, he was their masters, a her own. She has been brought even allowed iis owa small And what then? after all Trotter 0 up 88 a Russian child. Ber Olga car and used it to drive they were all expendable. Would mother could not cope any to Work each day. end come as a tonirived Tele. Room —____ better with her children in The anti-climax, the tm- , accident, the hit-and-run driver, Holmes Moscow than she had in Surrey, Measurable distance between . or the more sophisticated way Ta when her housekeeper, firs’ Dromise and performance in the - of allowing. even encouraging, Gandy Btreatfield, had looked afterfthe early years in Moscow must | thelr own weakness to destroy a children as well as the houge. have weighed heavily on them, as had happened in the At first, Melinda had no ne Melinda. Surety her future hed | case of Guy Burgess 9 to help her in the fat, bna something more meani ul: “and if the trailor deals only indeed the place was so ‘small than making taik so small if | in the devalued currency’ oy that spe hardly needed any Was Virtually microscopic with | secrets he beiraved, five. ten, help, But after some time she orner Western réelugees who, in Afteen vears azo. how much Bae alowed a parttime maid. other circumstances, she might _ mere nebulous and precarious drawn from the official Soviet not pDecessarily have wished 00 Can be the position of---the Organisation that provides ser- meet, | traitors wife? What is her vants for forcigners. This is Tt was Into this little circle of | future ? : also -& convenient means of Aceing queers. of disappointed | When Eleanor Philby returned “keeping foreigners Under sur- converts to Communism and ; Driefly to the United States on veillance, committed Left-wing fournaters, business of her own, Kim Philby Melinda did the shooping her. that Kim Philby arrived from . saw more and more of the self in the Gtate stores in Beirut. His American Wife | Macleans. This was to be ex- Kutuzov Place, wearing a head- Eleanor joined him shortiy i ected, there were few other scarf like other Russian house- gfterwards. uropeans he could sec, and wives of her age. although he and Maclean were fet alone “ercre sae (HOTRMED. La csinca and Donald Maclfan4 0 Caner eg had both been that Donald had betrayed every Were among the first com. | fo Cam ria ney y pot Datriots to meet Philby when he. Of the oReerent departments Tn" Teached Moscow: al of the Foreign Office: most important of all, they had both Maclean and Philby had had | served Soviet Rustic few direct contacts in the past, major Western secret to which but Philby was, in fact, the f {| Sacrificed the gracious lite ver «-BUeess defection. He had | | he had access, that Melinds not hird Man” in the Maclean Guarrel hi P ane shington Post Euvone NG jbave bought fier Mabled Maciean to escape be m8 Herald Europe or America. The ys Warning him that his interro- rene fp Mose acs who He ; slams recelved fat mote valudpie Kation was Imminent. accused him of still working fopshington Daily News injormation from her hush bd The two married couples had the British, From that time on._- ; th no -they -wilk ever receive {in common the fact that both the only Maclean Philby sawing Star (Washington) ___ rein Phuby, vet, in comparison, husbands were “British. both was Melinda, And irom Melindaiday Star (Washington) they have Fewarded him miser- women American. But Eleanor ably, was hot Le MUNI and she Melinda’s moth : reset er husband’s lack o ever, sent repuince’ pera of ffankness with her about his pothes for all the family from @8bidare activities for Russia. England and America. As a re- O¥ce Donald Maclean re- sult the Maclean children looked ‘ alee ed to her AS eras nce, jong ago, when Bondgtdy York Times more American than Russian. Int ie Past: “it they vad exaspccated her with Ris Adn’t caught up with aun. drnking bouis. his outbreaks of (Baltimore). a pierre Iglence, she had remarked to ; So few ees & triend: "YT wouldn't mind any ly World. he heard of her unhappiness Of her worrles and fea rs, ei ews (New York) ‘9 elinda aclean, Kim Philby must have appeared News (New York) eyerything a husband sho id b4. excep! faithful, rk Post < rould be Lady Philby now." a vLeader In Moscow, Melinda tound a [you woul "L caught up with handful of other British and (donald enthee, itt i ree aeely - The Wall Street Joumal American expatriates ‘whom at Melinda’ would now be The Nati pecessity | oT diclination had pat Melinda The social Hfe *he National Observer rouglit, tozether. They spent t” atploma ti arties, the , fyenings of bridge together « e rbetivloma tie receptions ~~ in _-=People’s World ao they would eat and drink at one Feacurant or another, but the hers es, Cven more so than jn the : old diplomatic days of the past, . Instead, she had her dreary - een Were always the same, and there Were far fewer of them, Conversation Fas TegitRitated, re an Moscow. Her husvana Date the ame views were expressed = Was by this time impotent, her foreign countries would now: be Examiner (Washington) and] ze-empressed, the same childgen were contemptuo , ed us of DELET int ne a oeanled. ney Uyed her: khere seemed no one from fk £0 COPY SENT ~onee nevey in the drab neers, put Whon} she could draw comfort Me ys ; the prevent 72> mediocrity of Asfeach year paced gn, -“Y LETTER TT em ne Sometimes the : Value] of ber husband to the “Meals ther woud ‘eat d disc§ss ees S eee pecessarily PER FA ane Tor tions they would enfoy in Paris seck a thawine of 4 e cold’ war, ROT