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title: The Flag That Fans Freedom's Flame
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-the-flag-that-fans-freedoms-flame-1952/
description: A large waving US flag fills the sky behind a Statue of Liberty drawn from below, the torch held up so the flag's folds appear to fan its flame.
section: Collection
---

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[![The Flag That Fans Freedom's Flame, 1952 US cartoon: A large waving US flag fills the sky behind a Statue of Liberty drawn](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-the-flag-that-fans-freedoms-flame-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-the-flag-that-fans-freedoms-flame-1952.jpg)

# The Flag That Fans Freedom's Flame

A large waving US flag fills the sky behind a Statue of Liberty drawn from below, the torch held up so the flag's folds appear to fan its flame. There is no caption in the picture. The technique tell is transfer: the authority and emotion of the flag and the statue are joined to the idea of freedom, with glittering generalities in the abstract value invoked.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← Taginayonenyo ti Panagwaywayasyo (Maintain Your Freedom) (Iloko poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/safeguard-your-independence-iloko-1952/) [Alliés pour la paix mondiale (French poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allies-for-world-peace-french-1952/)

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