The attention of the world swung to Paris this week as the third General Assembly of the United Nations opened at the Palais de Chaillot — but the Berlin blockade and East-West tension continued to dominate the news.

Foreign ministers and experts of the three Western Allies met in Paris the first day of the UN meeting and then transmitted a note to the Kremlin on the Berlin currency issue.

Secretary of State George C. Marshall, addressing the General Assembly, pledged the U S. to strive for peace and an end to the tension gripping the world. In London, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, reporting to Commons on the Berlin situation, said the Western Powers were united on a policy if Berlin negotiations failed. He did not disclose details.

Action for Peace

Britain's Gen Sir Brian Robertson said UK troops will remain in Germany until peace is secure.

Russia was overruled by the UN steering committee in the drafting of an agenda, despite vigorous protests by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky.

Slated to go before the assembly later was the report on Palestine by the late Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator assassinated in Palestine Sept. 17. The report, prepared just before his death, was endorsed by the U. S., Britain and France.

As Bernadotte's body was being flown to Sweden, Israel took steps to capture the killers, passed laws against terrorists, and ordered members of the Stern Gang into the Israeli Army. The Sternists ordered themselves dissolved. There were reports, however, that terrorists in Zion had threatened the lives of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and of other UN representatives.

Tension Continues

On the Berlin front itself, tension continued with Russians seizing Western-sector newspapers and the U.S. retaliating by banning all Soviet publications from the U.S. Zone. Americans protested to Russia after two Yak fighter planes flew dangerously close to an American military passenger plane.

Gen Lucius D. Clay, EUCOM commander, returned from Paris where he attended conferences on the Berlin problem and said, at Heidelberg, there will be a bigger and better air lift.

The Air Force celebrated Air Force Day by setting a record of 5,582 tons hauled to Berlin in a 24-hour period. On the British arm of the air lift, five fliers were killed in the crash of a plane.

France continued to face crisis after crisis during the week. The cabinet finally voted a 15 percent pay increase for workmen, taking advantage of the unfreezing of a 70,000,000,000 franc fund. But labor went ahead with its general strike Friday, paralyzing the city.

The U.S. 1st Inf Div wound up its training program at Grafenwohr with critiques, after "Exercise Normal." The troops then began moving back to home bases in the EC.

Political campaigns were in full swing in the U.S. President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey made separate transcontinental speaking trips. Communism, foreign policy, Congress and inflation were among leading issues they discussed before voters.