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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, leaves Cairo, after failed negotiations with President Nasser of Egypt
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.
President Nasser arrives for a conference with Indian Minister, Australia's Prime Minister and others in Cairo, Egypt.
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.
Egyptian army sets up defenses in Cairo during the Suez crisis of 1956
Egyptian soldiers take up positions to protect Cairo, during the Suez crisis of 1956. In opening scene, a soldier, is seen standing next to a jeep. Camera pans up to cinema marquee advertising an American movie: "Crime in the Streets." Soldiers positioned, at steel barriers in the street, monitor passing traffic which includes civilian cars and military jeeps. Camera in moving vehicle focuses on a jeep passing a heavy armored car parked at a street corner. Camera vehicle drives up close past the armored car, as it follows jeep carrying soldiers. View from side of street, as two jeeps drive past carrying soldiers. Camera focuses on one as it passes a gasoline station, with no activity at its pumps. The jeep continues past a tank at an intersection, with soldiers standing guard. The jeep continues into a more residential section, passing road barriers and a man and woman with some children, crossing the street, near troops at a fortified position on the corner. large portions of the street are obstructed by steel barriers, which the jeep must maneuver past. It passes several parked civilian cars. The next scene shows fortified position of civilian militia. Several militia members pose for the camera, pointing rifles from behind heavily sandbagged positions. Camera view from immediately behind one shows the road completely closed by steel barriers. View from behind another militia man who is looking through binoculars. Scene changes altogether to soldiers escorting civilian prisoners into a building for interrogation. Inside, a man shows pieces of a torn photograph to two men and asks them about the person shown in them. Unhappy with their responses, he slaps one of them during the questioning.
Death and destruction from Arab-Israeli conflict at Gaza strip. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold seeks truce.
Arab-Israeli tension at Gaza Frontier in Egypt. Wreckage of vehicles beside a road due to guerrilla attack. Soldiers look at the damage. Bullet marks on the truck and windows shot out. Dead victims of conflict. Bullets and ammunition lying on ground. Members of UN Truce Commission inspect section of broken railroad tracks. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold steps from UN plane and is greeted by diplomats. He talks with Egypt's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi.
Anglo French troops block Suez canal, sunken ships in the canal and Egyptian police on street during a cease fire in Egypt.
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.
Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo and UN Forces in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
Events during the Suez Crisis in Egypt. Officials and delegates at an airport. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo. Ruins and debris of bombed buildings on a street. A building burning. A man on a cart carries two dead men. Several views of the dead people lying on a street. The troops walk on a street. The tanks roll down a street. People crowd on either side of the street. Commander of the UN (United Nation) Forces Canadian General Eedson Louis Millard Burns gets off from an aircraft. The UN troops drive in a jeep. The sunken ships in Suez Canal. A donkey drawn cart and men move towards the canal.
