Regional Spiritual Assembly now being formed to signalize
its birth through the initiation of a subsidiary Six-Year Plan, designed
to swell the number of the adherents of the Faith throughout the area of
its jurisdiction; to multiply the groups, the isolated centers and the
local spiritual assemblies; to incorporate all firmly grounded local
spiritual assemblies; to obtain recognition from the civil authorities for
the Baha'i Marriage Certificate, as well as the Baha'i Holy Days; to
inaugurate a national Baha'i Fund; to consolidate the work initiated in
the newly opened territories; to lend an impetus to the translation, the
publication, and dissemination of Baha'i Literature in divers languages;
to establish Summer Schools, and Baha'i burial grounds; to propagate the
Faith throughout the smaller islands of Japan; and to acquire a plot to
serve as the site of the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of North-East Asia.

May the blessings of Baha'u'llah be showered, in an ever-increasing
measure, on those newly emerged Communities now holding aloft, so
steadfastly and so valiantly, the banner of His Faith, and may the outcome
of their collective efforts illuminate its annals, and contribute to a
notable degree to the consolidation of the institutions of the Baha'i
embryonic World Order now being erected throughout the length and breadth
of so vast, so turbulent, and yet so promising, an area of the globe.

Shoghi

(April 1957)

[Photograph with the following caption:]

The first National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North East Asia
elected in 1957. Sitting: Mr. Noureddin Momtazi, Miss Agnes Alexander,
Mrs. Barbara Sims, Mr. Hiroyasu Takano. Standing: Mr. Ataullah Moghbel,
Mr. Michitoshi Zenimoto, Mr. Philip Marangella, Mr. Yadollah Rafaat, and
Mr. William Maxwell.

[Cable of April 29, 1957]

Shoghi Effendi's cable to the first Convention of North East Asia:

Deeply appreciate message welcome dedication delegates tasks ahead
fervently supplicating richest blessings. Deepest love,

Shoghi

(April 29, 1957)

TO NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLIES

To the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia--1957

[Cable dated May 2, 1957]

The Guardian's first cable to the new National Spiritual Assembly:
Fervently supplicating befitting discharge sacred manifold
responsibilities. Deepest love,

Shoghi

(cable dated May 2, 1957)

[Letter of May 20, 1957]

Our beloved Guardian has i