War Over Suez

War Over Suez View of ships in harbor at entrance to Suez Canal. Ferry. Ships lined up in canal. 06:35:50 MCU of Gamal Abdel Nassar talking to reporters. 06:35:52 Israel soldiers on Sinai Peninsula walking toward camera alongside canal. Bodies alongside in sand, some nearly buried. Convoy of warships toward camera w/ battleship followed by two aircraft carriers, others in distance. Four British jets overhead in close formation. 06:36:17 View from plane of parachutes dropping & opening. Soldiers down nets on side of ships & wading ashore from landing craft w/ heavy black smoke from oil fire on shore. 06:36:37 Street w/ burning three story house. Street w/ Arabs milling about, bags of flour or ?? on ground. POV from army truck moving thru street w/ rubble alongside. 06:3:47 Ext. of United Nations; interior w/ Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles & others. LS of interior of General Assembly. Dag Hammarskjold boarding airplane. United Nation Troops (Emergency Police Force) marching up street w/ Arabs cheering & waving from behind rope. Eisenhower at desk speaking says US believes the UN can end the bloodshed as proven in the past. The End. Cold War; Middle East; 1956 News Review