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...asylum for war-crazed, shell-shocked and insane soldiers." Grosz emerged from the asylum a pale hurricane of rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced whores, vulpine businessmen, phthisical Army officers with eroding marble jaws, laborers coughing blood, and clerks sobbing on their knees. His graphic "No" to postwar Germany made Grosz a lion overnight...
Then the Hearst newspapers struck an attitude of righteous indignation, began castigating Hecate as "printed filth." The book sold more than 50,000 copies, became the subject of excited argument from coast to coast...
...Patients are beaten up and murdered by attendants. . . . [They] are starved. . . . [They live in] antiquated, unsanitary buildings [amid] filth, vermin and overcrowding. . . . Care of the mentally ill is a national disgrace...
...England. In its most controversial cases, Watch and Ward had been guilty of attempting to substitute the judgment of a committee of six for the considered opinions of all readers everywhere concerning the literature in doubt. When it comes to the fine difference between fifth for filth's sake, and reality for the sake of good literature, the Watch and Ward Society of 1946 once more lights its torch of emotionalism and proceeds down the glory road...
...into Palestine must end, the 1st Infantry Division threw barbed wire round the port area, patrolled its perimeter with tanks and armored cars. Early one morning Tommies and Royal Marines began transferring 1,286 refugees from two small sailing craft (popularly called "floating sewers") where they had sweltered in filth for two weeks. Like Moses, these Jews might glimpse the Promised Land, but they could not enter...