View of the United Nations General Assembly

(Original Caption) This is a general view of the United Nations General Assembly as the opening session of the meeting called to consider Middle East problems got under way. Seated left to right on dais are: Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; Assembly President Leslie Munro of New Zealand; and Hernando Samper of Colombia, Chief of General Assembly Affairs Section. Hammarskjold proposed a sweeping peace plan for the Middle East and indicated an international police force might be needed in Lebanon.