![Winston Churchill [2]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate", 1941 UK poster: A text-only sheet prints a quotation](../images/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-text-1941.jpg)
Winston Churchill [2]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate" (text and crossed flags)
A text-only sheet prints a quotation from Churchill's address to Congress under crossed British and American flags. The tell is the named speaker's words offered as the argument, with 'safety', 'good of all', 'majesty', 'justice' and 'peace' as the virtue words, and the paired flags standing for the alliance.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British Information Service, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York (British government agency)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (UK government agency print issued in New York)
British Information Service, New York. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-229b.
Text on the object
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 in majesty, in justice and in peace. WINSTON CHURCHILL From an Address before a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941 [imprint:] BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICE 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK, N. Y.
