18 MAY 1951, Page 18

Devonport Gulls

SIR,—Surely the point of the old tag, quoted (at second hand) by your Parliamentary correspondent this week is that one must " tell it to the Horse Marines "—a body of men difficult to get hold of even in these days of combined operations. 1 don't think the real Royal Marines have ever peen particularly celebrated either for gullibility or for whatever the opposite of gullibility is.—Yours faithfully,