Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Audiences seated as cars drive past them in New York, United States. Soldiers fire rifles from behind sand bag mounds and piles of shells. Tanks roll around the field. Eloise Mann with two men in Van Cortlandt Park. They ascend in a United States Army balloon as people look on. A pillar of smoke rises from below.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. United States Army balloon descends in New York as people gathered around look at it. A plane in flight.
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.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps, speaking in New York, United States.He talks about visiting Peace Corps sites all over the world and mentions that President Johnson asked him to convey his greetings to various world leaders during these visits, including one to the Pope who was visiting Israel. Of that he says:"When a Southern Prostestant President sends a Northern Roman Catholic (that was me) to deliver a message to an Italian Pope, in Jeruselem, that's the sign of an election year." He narrates several other illustrations of America's unique and improving tolerance regarding religion and race relations. And he narrates an amusing incident that took place with President Kennedy when he was campaigning for his election as a President, .
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.
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