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Notes and References Notes and References Abbreviations to Works by C.A.R. Crosland CP Crosland Papers, in the British Library of Political and Economic Science. FS The Future of Socialism (London: Jonathan Cape, 1956), reprinted as Vol. VII in D.A. Reisman, ed., Theories of The Mixed Economy (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1994). An abridged version of The Future of Socialism was published by Cape in 1964. The notes to the present book first give the reference to the 1964 edition and then (in brackets) the page-number in the 1956 original. A comparison of the 1956 and the 1964 editions will be found in D.A. Reisman, 'Crosland's Future: the first edition', International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1996, pp. 3-54. CE The Conservative Enemy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962). Full references to reprinted papers are given when first cited. SN Socialism Now, ed. by D. Leonard (London: Jonathan Cape, 1974). Full references to reprinted papers are given when first cited. 1. Introduction 1. P. Jenkins, 'Socialism in our time?', The Guardian, 22 March 1974. 2. D. Leonard, 'In Memoriam: I' in D. Lipsey and D. Leonard, eds, The Socialist Agenda: Crosland's Legacy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981), p. 9. The tribute first appeared, entitled 'Goodbye, Tony', in The Economist of 19 February 1977: Susan Crosland, in Tony Crosland (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), p. 402, explains why what was clearly intended to be an obitu­ ary appeared, with her approval, two days before the life-support machine was actually switched off. D. Leonard was the Labour MP for Romford from 1970-74 and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Crosland. Later he became a full-time journalist on the staff of The Economist. 3. C. Welch, 'Crosland Reconsidered', Encounter, Vol. 52, January 1979, p. 84. 2. Anthony Crosland 1. P. Williams, Hugh Gaitskell (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), p. 750. 2. J. Vaizey, in M. Young, J. Vaizey and D. Bell, 'Memoir: Anthony Crosland & Socialism', Encounter, Vol. 49, August 1977, p. 89. 3. 'Anthony Crosland', The Observer, 25 July 1965, p. 10. 4. C.A.R. Crosland, notebook entry dated July 1973, in CP 16(8). 5. Ibid., entry dated 1974. 6. H. Dalton, Practical Socialism for Britain (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1935), p. 320. 212 Notes and References 213 7. R. Jenkins, 'C.A.R. Crosland', in R. Blake and C.S. Nicholls, eds, The Dictionary of National Biography 1971-1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 193. 8. This topic is examined in more detail in D.A. Reisman, Crosland's Future: Opportunity and Outcome (London: Macmillan, 1996), Ch. 2. 9. C.A.R. Crosland, 'The Labour Party and the War', unpublished manuscript dated January 1940, in CP 2(18). 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. 13. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams dated 29 January [probably 1946], in CP 3(27). 14. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams dated 10 June 1945, in CP 3(26), Pt. ii. 15. Ibid. 16. Cited in B. Pimlott, Harold Wilson (London: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 42. 17. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams, date unclear [probably 14 December 1940], in CP 3(26), Pt.i. 18. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams dated 19 January [probably 1941] in CP 3(26), Pt. i. 19. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams dated 15 July 1941 and Letter to P. Williams, n.d. [probably 1940 or 1941], both in CP 3(26), Pt. i. 20. R. Jenkins, A Life at the Centre (London: Macmillan, 1991), p. 32. 21. Jenkins, 'C.A.R. Crosland', loc. cit. 22. W.T. Rodgers, 'Crosland: A Man of Suspended Judgement', The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 1982, p. 16. 23. S. Crosland, Ruling Passions (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989), p. 83. 24. Ibid., p. 190. 25. C.A.R. Crosland, Speech to the Oxford Union, n.d. [probably late 1940s], unpublished manuscript, in CP 13(21). 26. Ibid. 27. Cited in S. Crosland, Tony Crosland, op. cit., p. 204. 28. Cited in ibid., p. 210. 29. T. Benn, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973-76 (London: Hutchinson, 1989), p. 576. 30. B. Pimlott, Hugh Dalton (London: Macmillan, 1986), p. 424. 31. Cited in ibid., p. 509. 32. Cited in ibid. 33. Cited in S. Crosland, Tony Crosland, op. cit., p. 54. 34. Ibid., p. 49. 35. Cited in Pimlott, Hugh Dalton, op. cit., p. 588. 36. Jenkins, A Life at the Centre, op. cit., p. 89. 37. Cited in Pimlott, Hugh Dalton, op. cit., p. 588. 38. Cited in ibid., pp. 630-1. 39. Cited in ibid., p. 630. 40. Pimlott, ibid., p. 624. The other three were P.D. Henderson, I.M.D. Little and P. Williams. Robert Hall, Michael Young and J.H.Smith commented on individual sections. 214 Notes and References 41. R.H.S. Crossman, 'Angry Young Men', The Guardian, 1 December 1962. 42. 'New Jerusalem or Old Adam?', The Economist, 27 October 1956, p. 320. 43. D. Leonard, 'Foreword' to SN, p. 11. 44. C.A.R. Crosland, Speech in South Gloucestershire, n.d. [probably 1949], unpublished manuscript, in CP 13(21). 45. Ibid. 46. Cited in S. Crosland, Tony Crosland, op. cit., p. 65. 47. Cited in ibid., p. 147. 48. D. Jay, Change and Fortune (London: Hutchinson, 1980), p. 290. 49. C.A.R. Crosland, Speech in the House of Commons, 19 April 1950, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Vol. 494, No. 151, Col. 183. 50. Ibid., Cols. 185-6. 51. Vaizey, in Young etal, 'Memoir', loc. cit., p. 86. 52. 'G.C.', review of Britain's Economic Problem, The Financial Times, 1 June 1953. 53. Review of Britain's Economic Problem, The Listener, 11 June 1953. 54. D. Jay, 'Three Dangers for Britain', Daily Herald, 28 May 1953. 55. N. Kaldor, 'Britain's Economic Future', The Manchester Guardian, 27 July 1953. 56. Ibid. 57. 'GC, review, loc. cit. 58. Review, The Listener, loc. cit. 59. J. Strachey, 'Soldiers, Dollars and Funk Money', Tribune, 5 June 1953. 60. T. Balogh, 'Hamlet Without Claudius', New Statesman and Nation, 4 July 1953. 61. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to P. Williams dated 5 July 1940, in CP 3(26), Pt. i. 62. C.A.R. Crosland, 'The Transition from Capitalism', in R.H.S. Crossman, ed., New Fabian Essays (London: Turnstile Press, 1952), p. 35. 63. FS, 1956 edition only, p. 13. 64. FS, p. 55(91). 65. FS, p. 338 (494). 66. C.A.R. Crosland, 'The Principles of Cooperation', originally published as Ch.2 of the Cooperative Independent Commission Report (1958), in CE, p. 236. 67. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to T. Herzl Rome dated 22 November 1961, in CP 13(4). 68. T. Herzl Rome, Letter to C.A.R. Crosland dated 15 December 1961, in CP 13(4). 69. See D. Bell, 'Politics' New Look', New York Post, 23 February 1958. 70. Rome also invited Crosland (who declined) to write an introduction for a reprint of Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism that Schocken were publishing. 71. Crossman, 'Angry Young Men', loc. cit. 72. 'Labour's Liberal', The Economist, 17 November 1962. 73. Crossman, 'Angry Young Men', loc. cit. 74. The title of The Economist review, note 72, supra. 75. C.A.R. Crosland, Letter to G. Howard Wren dated 3 January 1961, in CP 13(4). 76. Cited in Rodgers, 'Crosland: A Man of Suspended Judgement', loc. cit. Notes and References 215 77. Jenkins, A Life at the Centre, op. cit., p. 218. 78. C.A.R. Crosland, in E. Boyle and C.A.R. Crosland (with Maurice Kogan), The Politics of Education (Harmonds worth: Penguin Books, 1971), p. 187. 79. Cited in S. Crosland, Tony Crosland, op. cit., p. 148. 80. FS, p. 191 (261). 81. C.A.R. Crosland, notebook entry dated August 1967, in CP 16(7). 82. R.H.S. Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol.11 (London: Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1976), p. 454. 83. C.A.R. Crosland, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 March 1968, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Vol. 761, Col. 454. 84. C.A.R. Crosland, Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April 1968, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Vol. 763, Col. 1006. 85. See C.A.R. Crosland, 'Legislating against Monopoly', Socialist Commentary, January 1951. 86. SN,p. 18. 87. C.A.R. Crosland, Thames Television interview with Llew Gardner in the series People and Politics, programme 14, 1974. 88. R.H.S. Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. I (London: Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1975), pp. 305-6. 89. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, op. cit., p. 414. 90. Ibid., p. 421. 91. Cited in B. Castle, The Castle Diaries: 1974-76 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), p. 542. 92. Cited in Pimlott, Harold Wilson, op. cit., p. 354. 93. See C.A.R. Crosland, Speech in the House of Commons, 21 November 1967, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Vol. 754, Cols. 1140-54. 94. Crossman, Diaries, Vol. II, op. cit., p. 646. 95. Ibid., p. 446. 96. Ibid., p. 550. 97. Ibid., p. 477. 98. Ibid., p. 532. 99. Jenkins, A Life at the Centre, op. cit., p. 217. 100. Ibid. 101. The phrase is that of Denis Healey, in his Time of My Life (London: Michael Joseph, 1989), p. 329. 102. Castle, The Castle Diaries, op. cit., p. 461. 103. R.H.S. Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. Ill (London: Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1977), p. 535. 104. Ibid., p. 545. 105. Ibid., p. 677. 106. C.A.R. Crosland, A Social-Democratic Britain, Fabian Tract 404, 1971, in SN,p.
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