World War I Draft and mobilization activities in 1917-1918. American WWI military recruits get down from a railroad train to get to the training camp. U.S. Military officials board the seized Dutch steamer ship in New York Harbor (seized as a neutral vessel during timeframe that Dutch ships under the modus vivendi agreement with the allies were threatened by German U-boats). The ship appears to be the Nieuw Amsterdam. (Lettering behind officials as they board is clearly "Amsterdam" but there is an obstructed word before that may be "Nieuw". Several Dutch ships were seized by U.S. military officials during this same month, including the Nieuw Amsterdam). Crew on the deck of the steamer ship Amsterdam. Dutch flag flying on the ship.
Draft and WWI mobilization activities for American men in 1918. Draftees under the Selective Service system get their documents checked by officials. Doctors examine the draftees for military recruitment. Men carry their baggage and move away in a train. Military recruits at a receiving station, lined up. They are seen carrying rifles and marching, beginning their drills, though still dressed in civilian clothing. View of the men marching and Statue of Liberty seen in the distance on the horizon.
Passengers arrive at Cunard deck and exit from their automobiles at Pier 54 in New York City. They board the British liner RMS Lusitania in New York, United States, for its final voyage. People on board the deck of a ship. Views of the ship. The Lusitania leaves New York harbor, aided by tug boats. The Lusitania was sunk 6 days later, on May 7, 1915, by a torpedo from a German U-boat.
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York, United States. The United States ships Macon (CA-132), Helena(CA-75), Enterprise(CVS-6), and Midway(CVA-41) and other Navy vessels in Fleet Revies on Hudson River, New York. Planes in formation flight overhead as officers salute. A dirigible flies overhead and a sailor salutes. A ship with name 'Porter' painted on its side.. Guns firing salute from the USS Midway (CVA-41) as smoke rises. Ships underway in Hudson River with New York Skyscrapers in the background. (World War II period).
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps in New York, United States. Shriver enumerates poverty, hunger and lack of political freedom as the main constraints in development of an individual in various parts of the world. It is these objectives that Peace Corps works for. He clarifies that Peace Corps is not against communism. Rather it works to release people from the clutches of imperialism. He states that Peace Corps volunteers help people in various countries to strive for betterment as per their own way of life and culture without directing them to Western culture. He also explains the essence of community development in Peace Corps.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps in New York, United States. Shriver delivers a speech about the activities of Peace Corps volunteers, men and women seated in the background. He says that Peace Corps volunteers are treated equally all over the world irrespective of their religion. He narrates an incident about a Roman Catholic volunteer living in a Protestant Church. He also quotes from an article published in an Indian newspaper, Times of India and how the assumptions made in the article have been proved wrong by the Peace Corps volunteers. He gives examples of how Peace Corps volunteers live in difficult conditions. Some of them teach in Latin American University whereas other live at a slum in Rio De Janeiro.
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