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"Goodbye, and don't forget-next holiday you bring the Coronation Stone and we'll get you a couple of salmon.”

A LOVE STORY TO

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TOUCH

OUR HEARTS-OR WAS IT?

D

ONALD and Melinda

is this the great- est love story ever told? Some would have us believe it is. Mrs Dunbar, Melinda's mother, .for one.

She provided many of the facts in the brilliant ac- count of the Maclean case recently published in the News Chronicle. And the

tone of the articles WAR atrongly sympathetic to Melinda.

No doubt Geoffrey Hoare, who wrote the articles, be- lieves in the love story. Many others believe in it also.

Perhaps they are right. A CABO supporting the love story can be made

out.

On that May evening in

1951 when Donald dis- appeared Melinda had two

By John Deane Potter

DONALD and MELINDA MACLEAN

OBEDIENT

at

seen.

she

THE ODD WORLD OF A FISH

By LES ARMOUR VER wondered what

Zoologists are wondering and the answer so far is that It len't anything like: you'd expect. If you plc-. ture a fish groping about in the dark waters, feeling a little wet and miserable; and having a devil of a time" finding his way about, you're almost certainly wrong.

Recent discoveries, fact, seem to indicate that the fish experiences very few of the things you would experience, if you went for a long underwater swim, But he does ex- perience, a lot of things that you couldn't experience no matter how hard you tried...

For instance, « Cambridge Zoologist Dr H. W. Lissmann reports that minnows are 612 times as sensitive to

·cane sugar as human beings, 250 times us sensi- tive to rose oil and 184 times as sensitive to: salt.

SENSE OF SMELL

A fish, moreover, can react to temperature changes of as little seven-tenths of a degrea Centigrade,

Ad

Вест

for

secing, a lot of fisht to move about mostly at night, Many more live so far below the surface that little light

CVET penetrates. They blind, but many prob- sou nothing but very hazy shapes.

Their, sense of smell, how- ever, is so highly developed. that they can distinguish be- tween the smells of the plants. two

British Foreign Office looked and animals surrounding

a few miles from the other way while Donald rivers

Macleon fled; gind to be rid, of another,

n

ono

salmon

senior oficial who might That probably helps à couse one of the greatest inter-find his way back to the river Bank cafes were filled with re- national sensations ever known, in which it spawned after a fugees from: Farcis:n. Anti-They further believe the F.B.). Journey which has taken it Hitlerism had given Com- stumbled across a link with him. hundreds and even thousands munism an impetus it has never in the course of their anti-Red The fish can also

of miles out to c since enjoyed in the free world. Investigations.

abunts of chemicals in

put their hands have put stream while salmon

day

.On

react to

when

¡And Melinda talked and sat Somehow Maclean may. "have lean may have with the fluent advocates of found out about this. infernational Communism

zoologista occasions efter day until two on.three

It Melinda shared his political Into o e'clock in the morning in the views how much easier and were migrating upstream, the crowded chair-to-chair cafes of understandable her decision to tiny change in the environment St. Germain des Pres.

have been impos». · · It would sible, unless she were deaf, not to hear their dogma

nearly every minute,

Did the absorb it?

WIFE

Join him would be.

There would be no unbearable repeated remorse at leaving her mother,

There would be no pangs at renouncing Britain, the land of her marriage, and America, the land of her birth,

a

was enough to stop the migra→ tion, and, in some cases, enough start the fish swiniming downstream again,

to

NEVER WONDERS What, then, do wo make of the fish's world?

It is full of intense emelis–

There would be no tears at CHE married Donald In 1940 the prospect of taking her some probably so Intense that while the Germin guns three children to a foreign land they blot out everything else muttered ominously outside where they will always be at The fish also undergoes what Paris. They spent their honey- a disadvantage and will for would to us bo, queer feelings moon in a field with other re-

over bear the stigma of their of uneasiness and unpleasant fugees fleeing from conquered parents misconduct.

ness when he swims into water Paris, before being taken by boat from Bordeaux back to Can her decision in fact be containing minute quantities of we wouldn't chemicals that England.

understood except ** Could it be that their flight deliberate choice to bring them even notice.

and the talk of up as Communists? from Nazism

Can ther And he is driven by bewilder- which smells and foels just where ho Was The real answer is unknown. like the wa But the argument continues.

Is Melinda as much of a If we had the sense organs of fish, it would probably seem Communist as her husband?] * Was the perhaps the main-

alf very difficult, epring of his actions all along? Or is this after all, the greatest love story ever told?

British

underneath re...

But the fish never wonders. He always does what comes naturally.

TAIKOO SUGAR

children, Fergus, aged 7, haviour sho Bet about But did she really love and Donald, G. They had making him a birthday it because in the anonymity their cafe Communist friends secret fight be explained save ing desires to get back to water both been born by Caesarian cake. The friend was Bur- of a big city it was possible had left a mark on bour of them on political grounds? section.. The third baby gess.

to receive messages without which they could never crass? was due in a few weeks-on He left after dinner

anyorie interfering with Particularly as it happened at June 14,

her plans to join

her the most impressionable time of nine o'clock. He wont to

their lives the time of the war This fact alone shows an Southampton with Burgess

husband?

and their youthful marriage. extraordinary devotion and and disappeared behind the obeyed it unhesitatingly. She

When the call

sho came

Was the a victim of what love for her husband. Few Iron Curtain.

Orwell bought her new daughter Pink double thinks the ability

George

called the women would look forward,

to Roso a new coat and shoes to after two difficult births de-

moet the father she had never diplomatic countenance to the

present an Impeccabe manding an operation, to a

Overnight third child which would WHEN he left there is

renounced World; while everything she had known, be- nouncing overything I stood have to be born the same now no question that loved, and, had been brought up for? way.

Donald was confident of his with,

There is no doubt now that In contrast is Donald's be wife's unswerving love and

She left her mother without is what Donald did...... a goodbye or a backward haviour towards his slim obedience. For events have

How far did his wife, know American wife. His strange shown that he felt he could glance. She must have known what he was doing?

she might never see her again. How else, except by sympathy character was always most depend upon her unquestion. Was It because of her love for for his beliefs, can some of her noticeable in his relation- ing devotion to receive him that she took her children netions be explained?

to join

their father? Was it secret messages from him, because of that

Sho ship with her..

obviously received love that she messages from him apart from however mystifying they crossed the frontier that divides the £2,000 which was paid into were and however sinister the world into two without a Swiss banks for her.

sigh of farewell? If so, it to

evidenco di at the VERY often

in touch with her.

In May last cularly during her

unparalleled in modern history,

year

four pregnancythe Immacu- Obviously he never STUDENT

disappeared, she had passport lato Foreign Office depart- thought for a moment she

photographs taken of her three mental head would not catch would question his motives DUT is it convincing? Or has children in the name of Smith,

• watching "ᤫ Little Fergus the 6.19 from Victoria to or betray his whereabouts Mrs Dunbar mistaken the other child playing with soldiers, dine with his wife and play or the contact men his motives of her own daughter? with his children....

There could be a stronger and said: "My daddy, is fighting for friends employed.

stranger motive for the bon

peace!

Could anyone but his

told him that? He stayed in London and How much that. con- havlour of Melinda. she did not hear from him fidence was justified! Even Go back to the crowded cos for two or three days, to her mother, who was her mopolitan Cafe Fiore on the Sometimes he was drunk, closest confidante apart from Left Bank In Paris at Christ- À GAIN, according to Geoffery" Sometimes he preferred the her husband, she never mas 1938. It was there during A. Hours, M.1,5 put it to her

the period of the phoney war quite bluntly, In an intervie company, of his friends. Few-uttered one word which that Melinda was introduced to with her, after, Donald's dise women would put up with would give any clue to Donald appearances that she knew he such behaviour, her missing husband's He was good looking and 28, was a Communistio that

But apparently Melinda secret, bore it with a meekness" She took a hat in Geneva perhaps be an ambassador one b

a Foreign Office man who would she was probably a Communist berseit and wire planning isto that would have surprised to be ready when the word day,

join him, Melinda- profewed an Early Victorian house came to join him in va

This on th birthd

MEEKNESS

Look

and part, the methods he used to get the story of a wife's devotions closed by months before she

Jetter, according to

Hoare, ahe the Arst

'mother'

was a 23-year-old great bewilderment and indignas American girl who had spent a lion at this the time pe

in Paris studying in fardo: But in Test

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