Liberté (Belgian flag, 'Unity of Strength' design)
A painted design: a large Belgian tricolour of black, yellow and red on a staff, with the single word 'Liberté' set at a slant in heavy sans-serif capitals across the top over a blue sky with three stars. The tells: one abstract virtue word carries the whole message, and the national flag is used as a ready-made symbol of the nation and of the cause.
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- UK Ministry of Information (design catalogued at The National Archives as INF 3/340, 'Unity of Strength'; designer not recorded)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Artwork
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Regime
- Churchill wartime government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (The National Archives, UK, INF 3/340), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; Commons tag PD-UKGov, VRT ticket 2012051010007684)
Unknown author; The National Archives (UK), INF 3/340, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
LIBERTE
FREEDOM
Printed without an accent on the second E, as on the object. Translation is FRAME's own rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
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