6 JANUARY 1956, page 26

Italy's Recovery

ITALY's dramatic recovery since 1945 has been of paramount importance in the struggle to preserve European freedom, a point inadequately grasped by the contemporary Englishman......

Green Fingers For The Amateur

MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN. By V. Sackville-West. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) IN Japan gardening qualifies as a religion, with its own mystique, and during the Left Book Club Thirties it......

Everyone Was Absolutely Splendid

F.A.N.Y. INVICTA. By Irene Ward, MP. (Hutchinson, 21s.) IT is a sad fact about Literature, as apart from Life, that whereas in reality human goodness is the most beautiful and......