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Equally Obviously, what i £5 = 5 3 >> 2 aaz zee os eh Maclean, abandoned ie nee ott oe aver was a ue ooee Zecae aoe 2S 2 with two young sons an wi change of inflection er voice, ‘z Ores ce eg? z * third child expected soon Which could be caused by « = PER AaZ ERE REZ ES fa Indeed, twa days after smile, : Maclean reached Russia, Melinda The Datly Telegraph also entered hospital, and while Published a telephone interview awaiting the Cacsarean opera- with Melinda Maclean, who tion to give birth to @ daughter promptly denied both interviews, ; : —-later named Melinda, after The Telegraph countereh by [| her—and wondering whether producing evidence that the she would survive this, her Post “Office and thelr own third caesarean, wrote to her switchboard Confirmed thet call husband, in _ letter only to be Was accepted br a woman who being made for Govern. Posted if she died. “if you ever had called herselr Mra Maclean. Ment aclion on this . Proeibe this. letter tt wilt mean The Express atood by their subject.” _ that ? shan't be here to tell you «oma bur Mrs, Maclean, by The Observer Welghed « how much love you and manipulating the latent hatred in with An attack on | really proud of you J am,” of the popular Press then burn- both the Express and For @ whole year newspapers ing in some liberal and intellec. Telegraph, earning from tried to put together the pieces tual minds, had struck an Lady Maclean he: of the Jigsaw. Inevitably, stories extremely shrewd _ blow for thanks and a4pprecia. | appeared about Mrs Maclean herself, ; tion of your courageous i And weil-meaning people, who . Her Mother -in- lay, Lady article,” : | Knew tttle of the insite facte, Maclean. wrote to the Express And Lady Violet | bezan to condemn these in. denying that Melinda had ever wWrole to The Observer ; quiries as the harrying of a made “to any representative of praising “the example . defenceless woman, the Daily Express or to anyone t has given to us au of! Melinda shrewdly tumed this else the remarks credited to oneke, & rare quality. natural sympathy to her own ber in your renee except on battlefiesd. ne ; advantage. ; hage® nae, go nied : ortene 7 lesrity, and disinterested the Pattern of her behaviour |Melinda pale and listless. she First, she sought Petmission 3 tes of th hel pversne por # justice, is erratic and frequently |appeared apathetic about her ro holiday in France, This wat notes mein co “The duty of a tree Press ty inexplicable. Rotber's attempts’ to secure Riven for there was no reas “———* 6 Piece the treedom of the {0 February 1953 ‘she toog Americ Rationality “for . an {o refuse it. . Thic tri to the ‘Supporrs Individual Citizen “from both her children” op holiday to. Melinda's children, Melinda . ersecutio: . Saanenmoser, a ski resort near herself held a British rt rest, away from public interest, Lady Violet Senham Carter Font That dure has beer sete Gstaad, and it has been issued after her marriage ar July tee 1950 8° me time Yarabury) ergs friend of Lacy No douot, highly gratified by fourney to Rusa barely. interested in the clothes r if perc ean Uproar, and in a comfort rennat to Ceres ene “called cy broughr es, for her New oar A; is statemen: -— —then wrote to The Times, pack. ing Blow of misplaced Sympathy, 9 photographer's shop and had York. to try to cheer her up, re, aciean intends Ing up Lady Maclean's ‘state. Melinda Moved with her mother a sheet of 24 herd and shoulders Even a Ro'leifiex Camera that rent fo fake her three child- ment, and eaid that: “What and children to Paris” then’ on photographs made ot her three Mrs. punbar eather eggatved ildren, used in j : Of several weeks. She inte - Hever took place There she renteg an apar,. “hi Bot Me! u é . tae ) . h h large ut Melinda had a sma Piece renee in France or aka, She considered that; "the ment in the Rue des Alpes, mae eceueht cement aee of news to tell her Mother, It later sake repeated invasion of the Privacy hear the take and park.“ Nirg’ six. Was that an American couple eréater Privacy for the of their famijhes( Burgess and Dunbar, a woman ef consider. That happens to be the ezget had offered them all the use of hildren. Maclean's] —‘an invasion able means and touching sis. A otogra required for their house in Majorca ‘for the Now events Played into her BMouniing at times to Persecu- generosity, bought her daughter gq bing Tor hemes reg curta, summer holidays Mrs, Bunbar hands a way she could tlon—by some Members of thea & new black Chevrolet car, and countries. asreed to accompany them, and hardiy have .. 4nd to Press is Surely indefensible. _. -? then in January, 1953, she letr- And Mrs, Maclean did not use . on June 10, Melting bought air- ber immense ady. ze, Jo Grimond, ‘the Libera}? her daughter with the children jer Own name for this transam line tickets for June 30, the day leader in the House of Commons and Teturned to the United tion. She called hersel/ Sfrg. after the children’s Schoo] term phoned her tn Surrey to ask and Lady Violet's son-in-law, States, ; ith, ended ae : ‘hether she had any Tegrets at even suggested that the Govern. At what Precise momeny did Now, it would Seem, she wag i The children Were excited at faving England Tn his account ment should “consider some Melinda decide to 2 to Russia ? ready to leave when the sgn ‘bhe brospect of sun and Sea, { her reply—" T would rather legislation to compe} Dewspapers Many commentators have was Riven, But the Sl@n was a ut two nichts before they were tot answer he wrote, Mra. to publish denials in such cases. tried te fsiablish this from a lone time tn cemine, ue to leave, Melinda changed ‘aclean smiled. + +» Othervise there ts a reat Study of her conduct after When Mrs. Dunbar returned ther mind. She told her, mother: hie brored a mae Onfarran, Concar ae a ThA Aemand a. shat A re aa ers Pm a a frre Rey eS ty Plenees in bie od Yr