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Description: Poster created during the Second World War (1943), according to the Declaration of the United Nations of 1942. The poster, created by the United States Office of War Information and made by the United States Government Printing Office[1][2], features the flags of those countries or governments-in-exile that pledged to support the Allied effort (beginning from the top-left corner, and continuing in rows from left to right: Haiti, Norway, Brazil, the United States, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom, Greece, Guatemala [behind the British Flag], South Africa, Czechoslovakia, China, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, Canada, the Soviet Union, Belgium, Bolivia, Yugoslavia, Honduras, Panama, Iraq, India, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Australia, the Philippines, Poland, Mexico, The Netherlands and New Zealand) above the on-going war machine that the United Nations represented. The absence of the Free French flag is unusual. This poster is important because it represents the origins of the United Nations as a wartime alliance (before it was a concrete organization). As a work of Office of War Information, a branch of the United States Federal Government, this work is in the public domain. Obtained via E-Donkey by Commanderraf.
Title: United Nations "Fight For Freedom" poster
Credit: Naciones_Unidas_3.jpg
Author: Naciones_Unidas_3.jpg: The original uploader was Commanderraf at English Wikipedia. derivative work: Beao
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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