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title: 'Winston Churchill [1]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-portrait-1941/
description: A portrait photograph of Winston Churchill sits above a quotation from his Washington address of 26 December 1941 on a blue ground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Winston Churchill \[1\]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate", 1941 UK poster: A portrait photograph of Winston](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-portrait-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-portrait-1941.jpg)

# Winston Churchill [1]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate"

A portrait photograph of Winston Churchill sits above a quotation from his Washington address of 26 December 1941 on a blue ground. The tell is the named speaker's portrait and words offered as the argument, and the virtue words 'majesty', 'justice' and 'peace' that stand for the Anglo-American alliance.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
(c) Karsh-Ottawa   From British Combine

"I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate,
that in the days to come the British and
American peoples will for their own safety
and for the good of all walk together side
by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace."

WINSTON CHURCHILL, Washington, December 26, 1941

[imprint:] PUBLISHED BY BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES (An Agency of the British Government) 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK 20, N.Y.   LITHOGRAPHED IN U.S.A.
[handwritten:] P British
```

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