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...torpedo had blasted Wajda's ship, a U.S. merchantman, at night; shellfire pummeled her carcass. Shell fragments got Wajda in the head and ankle, rolled him overboard like a sack. He came to on a pitching raft where ship's Engineers Mahlon Benton and Lindgren Bancroft had dragged him. They rigged a sail of two big yellow quarantine flags, dressed Wajda's wounds, doled him out a supply of chocolate and hardtack...
...Benton Defended...
...only useful purpose I can imagine in your reproducing Thomas Benton's painting . . . with explanations (TIME, April 6), was to arouse a storm of protest against the use of such material for propaganda purposes. At least you have succeeded in getting one old subscriber to write his first letter to the editor...
...MacLeish's enthusiasm for Mr. Benton's pictures finds expression in a Government policy, one result will be to alienate perhaps millions of Christian people in America from wholehearted support...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...