e of the closing year of the second phase of the
Ten-Year Plan of the establishment of a Baha'i Publishing Trust in India;
of the establishment of over thirty new centers and fifteen Assemblies in
India, Pakistan and Burma; of the purchase of some of the holy sites
blessed by the footsteps of Baha'u'llah in Adrianople, the Land of Mystery
and the scene of the proclamation of His Message; of the holding of the
first Baha'i Summer School in Central Africa, in Kobuka, Uganda, attended
by about one hundred African and white believers and representatives of no
less than twenty-eight Baha'i local Assemblies; of the convocation of the
first historic All-France Teaching Conference, the first fruit of the
combined labors of the believers of about thirty centers already
established throughout the length and breadth of that country; of the
setting apart of a plot to serve as a burial-ground for the members of the
Baha'i community in Tripoli, Libya and in the capital of Tanganyika; of
the purchase of land for the establishment of a Baha'i Summer School in
'Iraq; of the extension to the Baha'i women in Egypt of the right to be
elected to the Egyptian Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly as well as to
participate as delegates in the National Baha'i Convention; of the
purchase, in an island near Muara Siberut, Mentawei Islands, of a plot
supplementing the Baha'i endowment established in Jakarta, the Indonesian
capital; of the pushing of the northern outpost of the Faith in Alaska to
Point Barrow beyond the Arctic Circle; of the initiation of auxiliary
plans for the promotion of the Faith in the Seychelles Islands and in the
Sudan; and of the arrival of a pioneer in Praslin Island forming a part of
the Seychelles group.

APPEAL TO UNITED NATIONS

Nor can I in this survey allow to pass unnoticed the energetic and
commendable efforts exerted by Baha'i communities the world over for the
support, protection and relief of the persecuted members of the Persian
Baha'i Community subjected to one of the severest ordeals experienced in
recent years by the steadfast followers of the Faith in the land of its
birth. Following this barbarous recrudescence of religious persecution and
the transmission of over one thousand messages by Baha'i communities, some
in writing and others telegraphically, to His Majesty the _Sh_ah, the
Government, the Majlis and the Senate, and reinforcing the wide publicity
given in the world's leading newspapers and t