United Nations Honour Flag

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Honour
Other namesUnited Nations Honour Flag, United Nations Honor Flag, United Nations Flag, Four Freedoms Flag, Honor Flag, Honour Flag
AdoptedNever official
DesignA white flag with four vertical bars (usually red) which do not touch the edge of the field
Designed byBrooks Harding

The United Nations Honour Flag (also termed the United Nations Flag, the Honour Flag, or the Four Freedoms Flag, with alternate spelling "Honor" also used) was a flag symbolizing the Allies of World War II and their goal of world peace. It was designed in October 1942 by Brooks Harding (who was inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech of January 1941), and it had some degree of use as a flag from 13 June 1943 to c. 1948 to represent the "United Nations" in the sense of the January 1942 Declaration by United Nations. However, it was never an official flag of the United Nations as an organization (which was founded in 1945, and adopted a different flag of the United Nations in 1946).

History

1943 photo of U.S. soldiers flying the U.S. flag and the Honour flag

Brooks B. Harding (1896–1959), an American,

V-E Day. At the United Nations Conference on International Organization, where there was a golden motif, the red bars were substituted with gold, while some nations preferred green and blue bars.[2]

Additional names include Friendship Flag, Freedom Flag, Goodwill Flag, and Flag of Four Freedoms.

four freedoms flag."[4]

Proposed United Nations Flag
Adopted Flag of the United Nations

The United Nations Honour Flag served as the background for a 1947 United Nations flag proposal that also included the Seal of the United Nations. The final version of the Flag of the United Nations used a light blue background. Harding submitted a proposal for a "United Nations Authority Flag" to the United Nations on 20 January 1947 combining the seal of the United Nations and the earlier Four Freedoms Flag. This proposal was withdrawn in August 1947.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Here's the inside story on the most famous flag you've never heard of" by John Kelly, The Washington Post, 13 June 2016
  2. ^
    OCLC 975401. Archived from the original
    on 2008-07-06.
  3. OCLC 975401
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  4. ^ "Dictionary of Vexillology: HONOUR (or HONOR) FLAG". Flags of the World. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  5. OCLC 975401
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