Passengers board British European Airways Vickers Vicount airliner at Cairo Airport. Among those boarding is Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, who just concluded an unsuccessful attempt to persuade President Nasser, of Egypt, to accept international control of the Suez Canal. Among those bidding Menzies, and his party, farewell, is U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Henry A. Byroade, who is seen conversing quietly with another diplomat, as the airplane prepares to leave. The aircraft engines start, propellers turn, and it taxis away.
Suez Canal crises sorted out by Egyptian President Abdel Nasser in Cairo, Egypt. In Britain supplies of military material like artillery, guns and truck being stocked and loaded onto a ship to be transported to the Middle East. artillery and trucks being loaded. In Cairo Indian Minister Vengalil Krishanan Krishna Menon arrives. He greets others. Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies arrives in Cairo. Egypt's President Nasser arrives at a conference.
British, French and Israeli forces hold positions at the time of cease fire as the discussions in the United Nations goes on the Suez Crisis in Egypt. Smoke rises from a bombed oil dump in Port Said. The sunken vessels at a harbor. People at the harbor. A wrecked vessel. A sign on a board reads 'Port Said Aerodrome'. A damaged building. Two men look out from a window of a building. The rubble scattered on a street. A man and a woman on the street. The bomb damaged buildings. Anglo French troops block a canal. The Anglo French troops unload weapons from a truck. The troops stand in a group holding guns talk. The Egyptian policemen on a street. The men speak to a policeman. A littered street. The people walk on the street. The people walk past a damaged building.
A fleet of European ships underway at sea towards Egypt during the Suez Crisis. British and French troops get onto landing crafts from the ships. The landing crafts with troops head towards a beachhead. Smoke rises from an explosion on a beach. Soldiers walk towards the beach with rifles in hand.
European troops in Egypt during the Suez Crisis. British and French troops take positions with rifles in hand. They advance towards a beachhead. Egyptian prisoners are held. A large number of prisoners walk on the beach. Soldiers load a wooden box on a landing craft. European troops behind a sandbag wall on the beachhead.
European troops in Egypt during the Suez Crisis. Few civilians on a deserted street in a city. A closed market with barbed wire fencing. British and French soldiers patrol on roads with military vehicles. Officers shake hands with each other and enter a building.