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Seamen take launch to board their ship in Suez Canal.
Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.
View of the Suez Canal and Port Said and environs
What appears to be a fortress, with flag flying over it and a very tall steel tower standing in front of substantial buildings near the water's edge. Egyptian fishing boats docked at breakwater in Port-Said, with Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the background. Camera pans along the waterway, photographing a steamship and more fishing sail boats in the vicinity of the Lesseps monument. Scene shifts to the land, where local people are going about their routine workaday activities. It appears to be late in the day, with lengthened shadows and most shops closed. View changes to looking down from a fortress where visitors are going up stairs. Then a view from high up on a cross bridge where visitors have a view of rock outcroppings and excavations and a cave related to Suez canal construction. Another scene depicts several historic-looking buildings and a deep basin so large that Egyptian youths are playing football (soccer) in it. (Note: the film is reversed.)
The Suez Crisis. British forces prepare to engage Egypt.
Suez crisis. Ships at port in Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Egypt. Aerial views of region. boats maneuver around two sunken ships. British Landing craft grouped at port. British troops in full battle gear, march at port. Other British soldiers sort out artillery pieces and load munitions on trucks. Egyptian men mill about in street where two soldiers are seen. Aerial view of ships moving in canal.
Anglo French troops attack to seize the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Major events of 1956. Ships underway in Suez Canal, Egypt. President, Abdul Nasser announces the seizure of the canal. Soldiers move up in Egypt and dead Egyptian soldiers as a result of Anglo French attack. Anglo French planes bomb the canal area. Airborne troops land in the canal area. Debris due to aerial bombings spread on the street. Matter discussed at the United Nations meeting leading to a cease fire in the area. The Secretary General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold arrives in Egypt for negotiations. The United Nations Emergency Police forces enter a city in Egypt. People give a warm welcome to the forces.
Britain, France, and Israel attack Egypt following nationalization of the Suez Canal.
Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal leads to war as Israel attacks Egypt, and France and Britain embark troops for transport to a joint staging area at the island of Cyprus. View of commercial ships in the Suez canal. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. in discussion with officials. French troops embarking a transport ship in the port of Marseille, France. Brief glimpse of their destination port at Cyprus. British troops boarding airliners to take them to Cyprus where they will reinforce the existing British garrison. British and French carriers and warships assembling in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. A flight of four British Hawker Hunter jet fighter-bombers are seen flying in formation. Closeup of one inflight, with rockets mounted beneath its wings. Closeup of a rocket under its right wing. Scene shifts to another Hawker Hunter armed differently. It displays four outer wing rocket rails on each wing, carrying three rockets each. Auxiliary fuel tanks are installed on pylons under each wing. View of the White House in Washington DC. Inside, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles discuss the Suez situation. Next, speaking at a press conference, President Eisenhower states , "the United States was not consulted in any way about any phase of these actions, nor were we informed about them in advance." He asserts America's intent not to become involved and to bring the matter before the UN General Assembly where their is no threat of a veto. He states his intent to "keep in contact with Congressional leaders of both parties," and expresses hope that the United Nations can bring an end to this "tormenting problem." View of the United Nations General Assembly building in New York City. Inside U.S. Secretary of State, Dulles, is seen seated next to America's UN ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Glimpse of the General assembly with all delegates seated.
Hungarian refugees escaping from 1956 Hungarian Revolution arrive in Camp Kilmer; President Eisenhower during his second inaugural speech.
Hungarian refugees from the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution (also called Hungarian Uprising) disembark from an American Airlines plane after landing safely in the United States. Entrance to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the Hungarian refugees were resettled. Hungarian refugees get off a bus. A Hungarian man holds his infant daughter with a pacifier. The camera moves to another Hungarian man, wearing a black hat. A Hungarian girl smiles, some of her front teeth missing. United States Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks to the camera. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during his Second Inaugural Address at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of a radio tower. Radio tower view from the inside. View of the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Cars pass by modern apartment blocks with antennas on top of building. Television antenna on house roof. Man adjusts television as his wife watches from their couch in living room. A man and his wife, holding their baby, watches the inauguration speech of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on television from their family living room. Two women and a child watch United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech on television. Family of a woman and her children listen to Eisenhower’s speech from a radio in their living room. Bombing on a street in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Men firing in Budapest. A tank fires in a park. Apartments getting devastated from firing. Hungarian man aims his gun and fires at a car. Men fire on a Budapest street. Doctor and paramedics carry an injured on a stretcher behind a tank. “Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city, henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free”, said United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his second inaugural speech.
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