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title: '''Libertad de Palabra'' [Freedom of Speech]'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-libertad-de-palabra-brodovitch-1942/
description: A black swastika built from slabs is cracked and breaking apart, with a flame and smoke rising from one arm, over a sunset gradient.
section: Collection
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[!['Libertad de Palabra' \[Freedom of Speech\], 1942 US poster: A black swastika built from slabs is cracked and breaking apart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-libertad-de-palabra-brodovitch-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-libertad-de-palabra-brodovitch-1942.jpg)

# 'Libertad de Palabra' [Freedom of Speech]

A black swastika built from slabs is cracked and breaking apart, with a flame and smoke rising from one arm, over a sunset gradient. The Spanish headline 'Libertad de palabra' and the line naming it one of the four freedoms the Allies fight for put a virtue word over the image, so the Allied cause is carried by the word itself.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Alexey Brodovitch 1942.

libertad
de palabra

UNA DE LAS CUATRO LIBERTADES
POR LAS QUE LUCHAN LOS ALIADOS

Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E.U.A.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Alexey Brodovitch 1942.

freedom
of speech

ONE OF THE FOUR FREEDOMS
FOR WHICH THE ALLIES ARE FIGHTING

Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
```

[← War Planes: 90,000 in 1942, 125,000 in 1943 (Persian-language poster with Roosevelt)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-government-roosevelt-90000-125000-warplanes-persian-1942/) [Libres de Miseria \[Free from Want\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-libres-de-miseria-ciaa-1942/)

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