OELMEBO, E. - Samarbete för Frederihet-Högre Levnadsstandard. Marshall Hjälpen.

NATO poster for European Cooperation by Erik Oelmebo, depicting a red and a blue arm representing the American flag with the sleeves covered with the flags of the European countries participating in the Marshall Plan, pulling together on a rope with the text on it. With slogan: Collaboration for the Higher Standard of Living. Marshall Help.

This is one of the 25 finalists in the 1950 “Intra-European Poster Competition” promoting the Marshall Plan to reconstruct Europe after World War II.

The poster contest received over 10,000 submissions from European artists, all on the theme of European cooperation which ultimately would lead to the European Union.
Although support came from the U.S, the competition was designed to be by Europeans and for Europeans, with an intra-European jury choosing the finalists and winner (only 7 finalist posters are in English, the others are in French, Dutch German and Swedish.)