Antwerp. Life Magazine, 26 January, 1953
“Here twin metaphors of a pump and an octopus, in the guise of an impossibly surreal combination of a colossal flame-red pump that is also a colossal octopus, are posed as if replacing or superimposed upon the real-world Antwerp. This fantastic threatening creature is pumping a variety of military items from the West into Eastern Europe, principally Communist East Germany. The complex map metaphors featured cogently illustrate Cold War fears. The black icons identify the items being clandestinely transported. The thug and soldier pictograph at Vienna illustrates contemporary fears of traitors and spies. Text accompanying the map states that there were then people actually making personal gain by shipping strategically important materials to Communist countries, even though thereby radically endangering Western security.”