Ali Maher Pasha (on right), Egyptian political leader conversing with a colleague in a courtyard where Egyptian officials and military officers are assembled. As Political leaders enter the building, they are saluted by a senior military officer who then follows with fellow officers and officials.
Office of Strategic Services officers on a mission in the Middle East during World War II. Officers' cottage in Cairo, Egypt. An officer climb down steps. Boat "Lotus" in a dock area. Enlisted personnel aboard the boat "Lotus".
United Nations leaders meet to pledge support against the Axis Powers. Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek on chairs. Dignitaries behind them. Madame Chiang confers with Churchill. A meeting of the United Nations leaders in Tehran, Iran. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Premier of Soviet Russia and the diplomatic representatives of the free nations present. President Roosevelt introduces Sara Churchill, the daughter of Churchill, to Stalin. Stalin shakes hands with Sara. The Sword of Stalingrad is presented to Stalin as a gift from the King of Britain to the people of Stalingrad. Marshall Stalin accepts the sword on the behalf of the people of Russia. The leaders pose with dignitaries standing behind them. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
Edmund Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan, relaxing in his quarters. He is handed a dispatch, which he reads. He poses for photo. British troops standing by armored vehicle, as they patrol the streets of Cairo. British troops stand guard at bridge, as camel caravan crosses.Sultan Ahmad Fouad walks in garden with Premier Youssef Wahba Pasha and a military officer.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt enters building in Cairo, for 5 nation talks regarding control of the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis. Egyptian officials follow President Nasser. Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Gordon Menzies climbs stairs to the building, followed by officials. Other delegates arrive for the conference and are all escorted inside. President Nasser and Prime Minister Menzies stand in hall and converse. They shake hands. Other delegates file into the hall. Prime Minister Menzies seen leaving the conference, followed by phalanx of reporters.