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maize, she could benefit herself and these producers of raw materials
at our expense.
3. In Place of Fear,
by Aneurin Bevan, Heinemann, 1952.
Contemporary
Capitalism,
by John Stratchey, Gollancz, 1956.
4. This work has already been begun by Dr. Thomas Balogh. I should like
to acknowledge here the debt lowe not merely to his occasional writings
but even more to the stimulus of his conversation. I have also profited
greatly by reading, in advance of publication, some chapter of his forth–
coming book,
The Political Economy of Co-existence
(Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1960) .
5. The Irresponsible Society.
Fabian Tract 323, April 1960.
6. Socialism and the New Despotism'.
Fabian Tract 298, 1956.
REVENANT
(For
my
Daughter: Eighteenth Winter)
Who is that bird now whispering in the snow
With feet steady and young? The violent glance
Battered you where you stood and fleered the
air
With pain. Follow those wings! And if they dance
Headily into the iron mazes, hope
That the branch's spoke will bend, and if they leap
Into the gullies of snow, the lightless dunes
Will fold them in the humbling breath of sleep
Safe, never to rise, until your heart,
Shed at last of the stone of fear, can run
To seize a flyer of grief from a childhood's night,
Hallow the wings, shadow the bitter
Swl.
Stanley Burnshaw
