English subtitles for clip: File:1956-11-12 Near East Crisis.ogv

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A smoking Port Said greets British expeditionary forces as

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they arrive for an assault landing. The city had been

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consistently bombed for days before the amphibious operation.

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Oil dumps go up in flames under the pounding and the harbor

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is littered with sunken vessels, some bomb victims,

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others scuttled by the Egyptians.

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Egyptian air fields and key military points were occupied

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by British and French forces. But an uneasy stillness lay over

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the Suez Canal zone. A ceasefire was in effect.

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But the question of withdrawal led to stalemate:

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an Anglo-French refusal to pull out troops until the arrival

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of a United Nations police force. As the Force, composed of

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Canadian, Colombian, and Scandinavian units was being mustered,

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tension in the Mid-East crisis continued unabated.

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With the Canal already blocked, the sole remaining aim of the

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Anglo-French forces was to begin clearing the key waterway

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and, in the area they held, back up Egyptian police in

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maintaining order and preventing looting.

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The invaders marked time while the diplomacy of the world

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through the United Nations General Assembly strove to reach

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a settlement to satisfy all sides and remove one of the

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gravest threats to peace in recent years.