A film titled 'Delegation tour of Kenya' shows a six member British Parliamentary delegation headed by Walter Eliot visiting Kenya. They visit a construction site where a member of the delegation helps the workers with the construction work. They watch local men and women dig a ditch for a guard post. Kenya police band plays sports organized by them. Officials visit a group of Mau Mau prisoners being encouraged to farm land in their prison area. Delegation visits Athi river camp where Walter Eliot addresses the Mau Mau prisoners. Two prisoners give a petition to the members of the delegation from, behind the barbed wires.
A large number of Jewish immigrants from Europe in Palestine are monitored and processed by British soldiers, after World War 2. The immigrants are in good spirits and some are dancing the Hora. Groups of immigrant men are seen. One man is seen drying clothes on stone bank of drainage ditch.
A newsreel titled 'Terror grips Palestine' shows passports of Jews being checked as they leave the country. They board a train and wave goodbye. A ship carrying large number of Jews arrives at the coast and the injured are being carried away. People disembark from the ship. Bomb blast occurs at British Officers Club in Palestine killing 16 people. Injured being carried out from a wrecked building by the soldiers. Suspects being arrested and captives being searched for weapons. Soldiers patrol the streets as Martial Law is imposed in the city.
An enactment shows an Officer passing on the information gathered from British Prisoners of War to his Senior Officer in World War II. He also gets information from an injured prisoner in the hospital with the help of a nurse. Officer fixes a wireless radio at the prison camp and is thus capable to get valuable information about what the prisoners talk amongst them.
A film titled 'Interrogation of prisoners' shows an American officer speaking about the do's and don't s for Prisoners of Wars. He also introduces the cast of the film to follow. An enactment shows British airmen being caught by enemy in World War II. Their uniforms being searched and enemy recovers a slip of paper which ultimately proves handy for them. Enemy officer interrogates the prisoners.
A wrecked German seawall concrete fortification as smoke rises from it along the Atlantic Wall near Normandy France. A German soldier buried to his chest in a hole with rubble and dirt surrounding. He is digging at the dirt with little progress trying to free himself. British soldiers advance from beach past burning houses and wrecked buildings. Allied soldiers, artillery and tanks are seen on the beach coming ashore.
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