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* He also wrote the foreword to Voices From the Past: A Classical Anthology for the Modern Reader, edited by James and Janet Maclean Todd ( 1955 ); and other works
" The next year, parachuted into the Yugoslav guerrilla war, Maclean wrote: " Sometimes at night, before going to sleep, we would turn on our receiving set and listen to Radio Belgrade.
Fitzroy Maclean the head of the British military mission to the Partisans wrote ..... as we watched the whole of Leskovac seemed to rise bodily in the air in a tornado of dust and smoke and debris, and a great rending noise fell on our ears.
" Its aim, Maclean wrote a year later, was not " merely to entertain but also to inspire its readers.
In both the Western Desert Campaign and Yugoslavia, Churchill crossed paths with Fitzroy Maclean, who wrote of their adventures, and some of the problems Churchill caused him, in his memoir Eastern Approaches.
" She was a cut-out between Maclean and his KGB controller ," said Geoffrey Elliott, who wrote a book about her with Igor Damaskin, a former KGB officer.
Churchill assured him on the point of troops, and wrote a personal letter to Tito which he commissioned Maclean to deliver.
However, Sir James Balfour, a senior officer in the Covenanter army, wrote in his journal that about 800 Scots were killed in total, of whom no more than 100 were from Clan Maclean.
Maclean is the son of Montana writer Norman Maclean, who wrote the well-known novella A River Runs Through It.
John Norman Maclean's father, Norman Maclean, wrote Young Men and Fire that told a very similar story about the Mann Gulch fire of August 1949 and the 13 men who died there.

Maclean and several
Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby ; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter.
There are several different origins for the surname Maclean, however, the clan surname is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic MacGilleEathain.
Travelling within the Soviet Union was frowned upon by the authorities, but Maclean managed to take several trips anyway.
Once inside the occupied city, their patrol came face to face with Italian soldiers several times ; Maclean, with his excellent Italian, managed to bluff his way out of all of these encounters by pretending to be a staff officer.
The school has had several structural improvements, such as the construction of new buildings such as the Science Block, the Maclean Centre, T-Block, renovation of H-Block ( including the Year 13 Common Room-a room with lockers, kitchen appliances, and recreation features dedicated to final year students ), and most recently the new gymnasium and classrooms.

Maclean and books
The Books Division has more than six thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style ; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn ; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean ; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.
Maclean, a former Washington correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, has written three books about wildfire.
John Maclean was a writer, editor, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for 30 years before he resigned in 1995 to begin a second career writing books.

Maclean and including
He listed seven, including Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess.
By 1918, a large percentage of the party, including Inkpin and Maclean, were inspired by the lead of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution and determined to establish a British Communist Party on the model of Lenin's organization in Russia.
Brock offers a wide range of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including professional degrees, and is 15th nationally ranked Comprehensive University with significant degree of research activity according to Maclean ’ s 2011 University Rankings.
In 1588 the Small Isles suffered an armed invasion by Lachlan Maclean of Duart and his band of cutthroats, including up to one hundred Spaniards shipwrecked in the aftermath of the English defeat of the Armada.
He was two or three years younger than the group of Trinity College communists including Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and James Klugmann.
Golitsyn provided information about many famous Soviet agents including Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess, John Vassall, double agent Aleksandr Kopatzky who worked in Germany, and others.
Maclean spent the winter working in Moscow and amusing himself at the dacha ( country cottage ) of American friends, including Chip Bohlen.
Several companies filed proposals, and early in 1981, the CRTC licensed the proposal by Canadian Satellite Communications Inc, a consortium of Canadian broadcasting companies including Allarcom of Edmonton, WIC Western International Communications of Vancouver, Maclean Hunter of Toronto, Selkirk Broadcasting of Toronto, Telemedia of Montreal, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, a Quebec broadcast executive, and Rolf Hougen, a businessman whose interests included CKRW Radio and WHTV Cablevision of Whitehorse.
He tried his hand at as many different musical styles as possible, including various jazz and blues artists, and for a year worked with songwriter Alison Maclean in her band Fourstar.
Taking their name from a character in 80s cartoon series M. A. S. K., Hondo Maclean emerged from the South Wales hardcore scene to wider recognition, including touring with former Jackass star Steve-O and engaging in their own headline tour.
Graves of some of the early nuns remain, including that of a remarkable Prioress, Anna Maclean, who died in 1543.
Various heirlooms of the Kaïd Sir Harry Maclean, including his ceremonial sword, pistol and Matriculation of Arms are now housed for the Clan Maclean Heritage Trust at the Isle of Mull Museum.
* An article including a picture of General Sir Harry Aubrey de Maclean and details of his regiment while in Bermuda

Maclean and Eastern
For example, in his memoir Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean describes the song's effect in the spring of 1942 during the Western Desert Campaign: n " Husky, sensuous, nostalgic, sugar-sweet, her voice seemed to reach out to you, as she lingered over the catchy tune, the sickly sentimental words.
He was arrested in his own office by Fitzroy Maclean, who details the adventure in his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches.
Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy, states in his memoir Eastern Approaches that von Herwarth condemned the appeasement of the Munich Agreement, predicted a Soviet-German commitment to non-aggression ( which came to pass as the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ), and saw ahead to what he called " the destruction of Germany ".
Eastern Approaches ( 1949 ) is an autobiographical account of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean.

Maclean and which
In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
Philby had undertaken to devise an escape plan which would warn Maclean, currently in England, of the intense suspicion he was under and arrange for him to flee.
The " affair of the missing diplomats ," as it was referred to before Burgess and Maclean surfaced in Moscow, attracted a great deal of public attention, and Burgess ' disappearance, which identified him as complicit in Maclean's espionage, deeply compromised Philby's position.
Aileen suffered from psychiatric problems, which grew more severe during the period of poverty and suspicion following the flight of Burgess and Maclean.
* Bear Island, a novel by Alistair Maclean which is set on Bear Island
To undermine the war effort was to risk alienating the working class, which many labour leaders were unwilling to do -– besides Maxton, Gallacher and Maclean.
It is also likely that his information helped in the investigation of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the U. S. Gouzenko, being a cipher clerk by profession, likely also assisted with the Venona investigation, which probed Soviet codes and which eventually led to the discovery of vital Soviet spies such as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross ( the so-called Cambridge Five ), as well as Alan Nunn May.
In 1961, Maclean's began publishing a French-language edition, Le Magazine Maclean, which survived until 1976, when the edition was absorbed by L ' actualité.
President of the Scottish Conservatives Sir Donald Maclean and his wife, Muriel, were in the room in which the bomb exploded.
In 1825 the entire island was leased to Dr Lachlan Maclean, a relative of Hugh Maclean of Coll, and its inhabitants ( then numbering some 450 people ) were given a year's notice to quit their homes, which essentially meant an enforced leaving of the island.
Dorothy Maclean initially followed practices from the Sufi group centred on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan and from this developed her contact with the divine to focus upon communication with ' nature spirits ' which she named as devas.
At the event, Henderson performed a song, to the tune of Scotland the Brave, which glorified John Maclean, a communist and Scottish nationalist hero.
From 1955 to 1987 he was on the staff of the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies which he co-founded with Calum Maclean: there he contributed to the sound archives that are now available on-line.
It is unlikely that Canna ever formed part of the territories of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, which title became forfeit in 1493, as Monro reported of " Kannay " in 1549 that the island was a: " faire maine land, foure myle lange, inhabit and manurit, with paroche kirke in it, guid for corne, fishing and grassing, with a falcon nest in it, pertines to the Abbot of Colmkill ", although it " burned with fire " as part of the feud between Clanranald and Maclean of Duart in the late 16th century.
Coll was home to a branch of the Clan Maclean for 500 years, not all of which were peaceful.
Two Canadian broadcasting firms, Maclean Hunter Ltd. ( which owned CTV station CFCN-TV in Calgary ), and Baton Broadcasting ( owners of Toronto's CTV affiliate CFTO-TV ), made a joint offer to purchase the stations, but were turned down by the CRTC, as Maclean-Hunter owned CFCO in Chatham, Ontario ( also in the Windsor-Detroit market ), and neither company could agree which radio stations to sell ( CFCO or CKLW-AM-FM ).
In showing that Scottish feudal baronies are titles of nobility, reference may be made, amongst others, to Lyon Court in the Petition of Maclean of Ardgour for a Birthbrieve by Interlocutor dated 26 February 1943 which " Finds and Declares that the Minor Barons of Scotland are, and have both in this Nobiliary Court, and in the Court of Session, been recognised as ' titled ' nobility, and that the estait of the Baronage ( The Barones Minores ) is of the ancient Feudal Nobility of Scotland ".
Maclean disagreed strongly and felt that Britain encourage reform which alone, in his opinion, could save the country from communism.
Maclean had little access to messages between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, which usually bypassed both the State Department and the Foreign Office.
He saw the Venona material, and recognized that Maclean was Homer, which was confirmed by his KGB control.
He knew that some of the encoded messages KGB had been sent from New York, which Maclean had often visited to see his family, who stayed there with Melinda's mother.
One of the highlights of the show was a section called Don and Pete, being Don Maclean and Peter Glaze in a silent-comedy-style section which saw the lead actors playing different parts each week, for example fishing, as sweepers, barbers, at a riding school, on a building site, on a farm, at a circus, window cleaners, bellboys, removals, etc.

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