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title: Lend to Defend His Right to be Free - Buy National Savings Certificates
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-lend-to-defend-his-right-to-be-free-savings-certificates-1939/
description: A painted boy in a white shirt rests his cheek on his hand beside a Meccano-style crane he is building. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Lend to Defend His Right to be Free - Buy National Savings Certificates, 1939 UK poster: A painted boy in a white shirt rests](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-lend-to-defend-his-right-to-be-free-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-lend-to-defend-his-right-to-be-free-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)

# Lend to Defend His Right to be Free - Buy National Savings Certificates

A painted boy in a white shirt rests his cheek on his hand beside a Meccano-style crane he is building. The slogan 'Lend to Defend His Right to be Free' attaches the abstract value 'right to be free' to the purchase of National Savings Certificates and shows no detail of what the money buys.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
TOM PURVIS

LEND TO DEFEND
HIS RIGHT TO
BE FREE
BUY NATIONAL
SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FOSH & CROSS LTD., LONDON (51/5819)
```

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