First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Lester B. Pearson, second from right, Canada, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, chairman of Committee 1 (Political and Security) of the First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, confers with Andrew W. Cordier, left, Executive Assistant to United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, before the second meeting of the 55-nation Committee at which the question of granting a hearing before the Committee to the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee was discussed. Also seen are Arkady A. Sobolev, second from left, USSR, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Department of Security Council Affairs, and Dragoslav M. Protich, Yugoslavia, Director of the Administrative and General Division of the Department. Special Session was convened at the request of the United Kingdom to consider the Palestine question.