tice,
next to the Institution of the Guardianship, foremost rank in the divinely
ordained administrative hierarchy of the World Order of Baha'u'llah.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, June 4, 1957]

Restitution of Baha'i Properties in Persia

Rejoice announce yet another victory won in cradle of Faith, swiftly
following crushing defeat recently sustained by Covenant-breakers in Holy
Land. National Haziratu'l-Quds in Tihran has been returned, completing
thereby the restitution of Baha'i properties seized at the instigation of
traditional enemies in Baha'u'llah's native land.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, June 8, 1957]

Purification of Haram-i-Aqdas

Announce to Hands and all National Assemblies that following the loss of
the appeal to the Supreme Court, the Government expropriation order has
been implemented, resulting in the complete evacuation of the remnant of
Covenant-breakers and the transfer of all their belongings from the
precincts of the Most Holy Shrine, and the purification, after six long
decades, of the Haram-i-Aqdas from every trace of their contamination.
Measures under way to effect transfer of title deeds of the evacuated
property to the triumphant Baha'i community.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, September 6, 1957]

Announcement of Series of Five Intercontinental Conferences and
Appointment of Eight Additional Hands of the Cause

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the memorable
Holy Year associated with the Centenary celebrations of the birth of the
Mission of Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-_Ch_al of Tihran--an anniversary
falling only a few months before the decade-long global Spiritual Crusade,
on which the entire company of His followers have embarked, will have
reached its midway point--I feel moved to announce the convocation of a
series of Intercontinental Conferences, five in number, to be held
successively in Kampala, Uganda, in the heart of the African continent; in
the city of Sydney, the oldest Baha'i center established in the Antipodes;
in Chicago, where the name of Baha'u'llah was publicly mentioned for the
first time in the western world; in the city of Frankfurt, in the heart of
the European continent; and in Djakarta, the capital city of the Republic
of Indonesia.

These historic gatherings, which will recall in some of their aspects the
four epoch-making Conferences which commemorated the hundredth anniversary
of the inception of the Baha'i Revelation, ar