Session on Palestine Set for April 28, After 29 Nations Approve British Request

Secretary-General Trygve Lie today cabled ###. 55 member states of the United Nations informing them that the special session the General Assembly on the Palestine issue will open April 28. The cable was ##t following receipt of approval from the 28th and 29th nations, one more than the jority necessary to call a special session.

In the cable, Mr. Lie listed a six-point tentative agenda for the session, consists of: 1. The opening of the session by the chairman of the Belgian delegation; 2. Election and report of the credentials committee; 3. Election of a president; 4. Organization of the session; 5. Adoption of an aganda; 6. Constituting and structing a special committee to prepare for consideration of the question of lestine at the second regular session of the General Assembly.

As the U.N. secretariat made hurried preparations for the meeting, it was ##vealed that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will not attend and that Britain will ##nd no ministerial delegation, merely one Palestine expert from the Foreign Office ## another from the Colonial Office to assist Sir Alexander Cadogan, head of the ##ited Kingdom permanent delegation.The United States has not yet named a delegate to the special session, but is understood that Warren R. Austin, permanent representative, will attend. The ##aine, which approved the session, suggested that it be held in Geneva.

At Flushing Meadows, where the session will be held, workmen will commence ##aning, airing and repairing the assembly hall and conference rooms tomorrow. ##ong the difficulties facing them will be the installation of telephone service be use of the nation-wide telephone workers’ strike. Other problems include obtaining ##feteria facilities since the regular equipment was leased out following the close the first regular Assembly session, and transportation which was furnished by the S. Army and Navy but will have to be hired on a commercial basis for this session.The complete list of countries which replied to the U.N. following Britain’s quest April 2 for a special session–all in the affirmative–is: Cuba, France, United States, Greece, Haiti, China, Panama, USSR, Paraguay, Liberia, Czechoslovakia, ##den, Ecuador, Denmark, Ukraine, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Honduras, India, Peru, ##inican Republic, Brazil, South Africa, Norway, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, ilippine Republic.Great Britain’s right to sit on the investigating commission for Palestine be set up by the General Assembly, unless the Jewish Agency is also represented, ## challenged today by the American Jewish Conference. In a communication to Acting ##cretary of State Dean Acheson, the Conference asked the support of the United ##tes for the proposition that either all parties directly concerned with the Palestine situation should be included on such a commission, or else, that all be excluded. ## no other basis,” the letter said, “would it be possible to obtain all relevant ##cts and points of view without distortion and without injury, in particular, to ## interests of any of the parties directly concerned.”