24 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 14

SIR.-I served for two years in Army Public Relations and

am 'ashamed at the recollection of my extreme youth and inexperience, which were all I had to put at the service of seasoned war correspondents. Fortunately, in their un- demonstrative way, they taught me much, and while by no means all correspondents were of the calibre of Christopher Buckley, Alan Moorehead, Alex Clifford and Basil Cringell, I should like to echo Cyril Ray's tribute to such men.

Apart from their purely professional ability, they were scholarly, civilised, alert and brave— gentlemen whom it was an honour to know, and who could serve as a pattern for followers of their own, or any other, calling.—Yours faithfully,