“We Build a New Europe” In 1950, the ERP launched a poster contest on the subject “Intra-European Cooperation for a Better Standard of Living” and received more than 10,000 submissions from artists throughout Europe. One of the finalists, “We Build a New Europe,” submitted by Austrian Kurt Krapeik, shows the wartime devastation in a burned tree and the promise of recovery in new shoots. The European nations, represented by flags, fit tightly together in the nest, which is being supplied by doves, symbols of peace.

Library of Congress, 3b49410.