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Geneva Police said on the 16th that Melinda Maclean, American wife of missing British diplomat Donald Maclean, seemed to have disappeared leaving no trace either of her, or of her three children. Swiss frontier and police posts had been told to watch for the four persons who were not to be seen after the 12th. Over two years had passed since Maclean aged 39, former head of the British Foreign Office's American Department, vanished with Guy Burgess after landing at St. Malo in Northern France. The missing diplomats created a sensational episode, launching speculation of various kinds. A world-wide hunt for them drew blank. In the latest addition to that tale, police said that Melinda Maclean drove off in a black Chevrolet on Friday the 12th with her children, telling her mother they would be back on Sunday. However, Mrs. Maclean failed to turn up for a cocktail party at which she was expected on the night of the 15th. The children too were missing at the international school in Geneva when the new term began after holidays, on Monday the 16th. Maclean and Burgess were presumed to have defected to the Soviet Union. The authorities now thought it likely that Mrs. Maclean and her three children had left clandestinely to join her husband behind the Iron Curtain.
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