New York --(AP-- Partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab countries was approved by the United Nations assembly late Saturday.

Arabs here and in the Middle East promptly threatened general opposition and uprising against any attempt to carry out the assembly's decision.

The six Arab nations represented here walked out of the crowded assembly hall in protest after charging bitterly that the U.N, Charter had been "murdered" by the majority verdict.

The first reaction from the Middle East came from Baghdad, Iraq. Riad El Solh, premier of Lebanon, told newsmen there that "we are waiting, prepared to march on to our objectives when the time comes."

It was noted that he spoke shortly before the assembly acted but he renewed the Arab threat to act against any partition move.

Vote 33 to 13

The assembly's final vote approving the "Soviet-American" proposal to set up independent Jewish and Arabic countries in the Holy Land by next October 1 was 33 to 13.

This was well over the requirement for approval by two-thirds of those delegates present and voting. The 13 opposed to partition could have been defeated by a minimum of 26 affirmative votes. Ten nations abstained and Siam was absent.

The Arabs made it clear that their walk-out was directed only against the decision on Palestine, which they said they would not obey.

It was the second walk-out in U.N. history.

The first was by Andrei A. Gromyko of Russia, who left the security council in protest against a decision in the Iranian case in March, 1946.

1947 Assembly Adjourns

Soon after the crucial vote on partition the 1947 assembly adjourned finally at 6:59 p.m. EST. The session began September 16.

The next assembly, unless a special session is called, is slated to meet in some European city next September.

The decision on Palestine found the United States and Russia teaming together for one of the few times in U.N. history. It was the only important question which arose during the 11 weeks of the 1947 session on which the two big powers agreed fully.

Herschel V, Johnson, U.S. delegate, praised the assembly vote on demonstrating that the U.N. " is

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capable of dealing forthrightly with urgent international issues."

Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet deputy foreign minister, declared that the Palestine decision is a "just one" and "the best under the circumstances."

Jews Say 'Noble' Decision

The Jewish Agency for Palestine called the decision a "noble" one and said its first concern was to try to help the refugees who have been attempting to get to Palestine from Europe.

As the Arab delegates left the assembly hall at Flushing Meadow Park, Faris El Khoury of Syria served notice that the decision will be opposed "by all Arabs."

In a final statement to the delegates, Secretary-General Trygve Lie expressed the hope that the four-power foreign ministers council now meeting in London "will achieve real progress toward the conclusion of the major peace treaties."

He said that the U.N. was founded on the assumption that the major powers would agree and that "agreement on the peace treaties with Germany and Austria, and later Japan, would mark a further step toward conciliation and agreement on other questions."

Dr. Oswldo Aranha of Brazil, who presided over this assembly, also expressed the wish that the foreign ministers meeting in London will be "guided on the right path to peace, in order that we (the U.N.) may adopt the decisions necessary for its maintenance and so fulfill the task entrusted to us by nearly all the peoples of the world."

Session Accomplished

During the session, which ran two weeks longer than Lie had expected, the majority of the 57 nations:

1--Created a year-round Little Assembly sponsored by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, to consider issues arising between regular fall sessions. The Russian group i the U.N. attacked it as a violation of the charter and said they would not serve in it. The Little Assembly is expected to meet early in January.

2--Created a U.S. sponsored Balkans commission also at the suggestion of the U.S. This was charged with the task of supervising establishment of an independent Korean government. The Soviet Ukraine refused to serve on it and Russia indicated the commission would not be permitted to enter the norther (Soviet) zone of Korea.

3-- Created a Korean Independence Commission, also at the suggestion of the U.S. This was charged with the task of supervising establishment of an independent Korean government. The Soviet Ukraine refused to serve on it and Russia indicated the commission would not be permitted to enter the northern (Soviet) zone of Korea.

4--Approved a resolution calling for the U.N. members to promote friendly relations among nations. This was the final result of a bitter Soviet attack on alleged "criminal war propaganda" which the Russians said was prevalent in the United States, Greece and Turkey. Russia called some 15 Americans, including U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles, "war-mongers."

These were the major questions. The assembly also dealt with a variety of other problems, with the Russians consistently opposing the United States and the majority.

Aranha Named -- and the assembly approved-- appointment of Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Panama and the Philippines to a five-nation commission which will supervise the creation of separate Jewish and Arabic countries in Palestine by next October 1.

NEW YORK--(AP) --

The United Nations devoted some of its best brains and many hours of its busy time to looking for a solution of the years-old Palestine problem. And the U.N. is certain it has not seen the last of this controversy.

Palestine has been a top-ranking world problem since World War I days. But it did not hit the United Nations until last April. Since then it has eclipsed many of the other fights in the U.N. and it is the only issue that has made the U.N. put out the "SRO" [Standing Room Only] signs on its section reserved for the public.

ALTHOUGH the Jews had looked toward Palestine before World War I, they did not become too active until the Balfour declaration in 1917 in which the British government came out for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land.

The Arabs protested. But in 1922 the League of Nations council approved a mandate placing Palestine under British administration and that mandate became effective in 1923.

The British turned the whole affair over to the U.N. last April when they requested that the U.N. consider at the second regular assembly, scheduled for September, the future government of Palestine.

Confronted with this British request, the U.N. paved the way for discussion at the fall assembly by holding a three-weeks special assembly last spring

The special assembly created an 11-nation special investigating commission which went to Palestine for an on-the-spot inquiry and wrote its report in Geneva.

A MAJORITY of seven nations of this commission recommended the partition of Palestine into Jewish ad Arabic countries, with an economic union between them and with Jerusalem as an international city.

A minority of three proposed a federalized nation with Jerusalem as the capital

Australia, the 11th nation, did not come out for either report.

Thus the assembly meeting in September had the spade-work completed on this problem. Accordingly, it set up a special 57-nation Palestine committee and got down to business.

Britain made her position clear without delay but it was several days before the United States and Russia stated their plans regarding the problem.

The British said they desired to terminate the mandate and withdraw completely from Palestine as quickly as possible. They said also they would not assume the major role in enforcing any U.N. decision on which the Arabs and Jews did not agree.

The U.S. came out for partition first and then Russian endorsed the U.S. position. This agreement between the two big powers which have fought bitterly over many U.N. issues surprised numerous delegates but encouraged them in their task.

THE SPECIAL Palestine committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian foreign minister, next set up two subcommittees. One was told to whip up a partition plan from several proposals before the group. The other, known as the "Arab" subcommittee, was told to turn in a report on the Arab views for a single, unified Arab state in Palestine.

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian undersecretary of state for external affairs, was on e of the prime workers i the "partition" subcommittee. He devoted many hours to finding agreements for the knotty problems that bobbed up constantly and often came forward with a solution to minor disagreements between Russia and the U.S. on the partition scheme.

Pearson was assisted mainly by Jorge Garcia Grandados of Guatemala.

Herschel V. Johnson, U.S. delegate, and Semen K. Tsarapkin of Soviet Russia, represented the two big powers on the subcommittee and played leading roles in its work.

THE REPORT of the "Arab" subcommittee followed generally the Arab views on Palestine, with an added recommendation for the assembly to refer to the International Court of Justice the question whether the U.N. had a legal right to deal with the Palestinian problem. The 57-member special Palestine committee quickly voted down the Arab views and took up the "partition" subcommittee report.

The British, meanwhile, made two more statements in the committee and one in the assembly emphasizing their intention to withdraw from Palestine as speedily as possible. They declared that apparently some delegations had not thought the British meant what they had said.

The Jewish Agency for Palestine appeared before the assembly committees as spokesman for the Jews of Palestine. It endorsed partition.

The Arab higher committee, fighting partition all the way, refused to appear before the special investigating committee in Palestine and confined its protests to long statements before the assembly's political committee last spring and the Palestine committee this fall.

THE PARTITION plan recommended the creation of separate Jewish and Arab countries, under the watchful eye of the security council. The plan proposed that the British withdraw from Palestine by next Aug.1 and that the two countries come into being by next Oct. 1.

It also called for an economic union between the two new nations and for the city of Jerusalem to be an international city under the care of the U.N. trusteeship council. The plan left it up to the new nations to issue regulations on immigration, leaving the Jews a free hand on admitting fellow Jews into their new country.

The Jewish Agency estimated that under the plan the Jewish country would have a Jewish population of 533,000 and an Arab population, plus others, of 397,000, for a total of 935,000. To this the agency added 10,000 Jews living in Jerusalem which it said would choose citizenship in the Jewish nation and form an integral part of it as far as citizenship was concerned.

THE AGENCY also estimated that the Arab country would have 804,000 Arabs and others and 10,000 Jews for a total of 814,000. It noted that the Arab and other population of Jerusalem was 105,500.

The agency noted that the total area of Palestine is approximately 10,000 square miles, of which the proposed Jewish state would have 5,500 square miles and the Arab nation 4,500.

The Arab League, now made up of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Trans-Jordan and Saudi Arabia, was organized in 1943. One of its principal objectives was the establishment of Palestine as an independent country with the present 2 to 1 Arab population ratio.

In 1946, the Anglo-American committee of inquiry recommended partition of Palestine and the admission of 100,000 Jewish immigrants. The British rejected this and came back with a plan for provincial autonomy.