tely six acres, in precincts of Bab's Sepulcher.

The historic process of establishment of international Baha'i endowments
on Mount Carmel, inevitably held in abeyance for fifty years after the
inception of the Faith, initiated on the morrow of Baha'u'llah's
Ascension, through the purchase, in the course of 'Abdu'l-Baha's ministry,
of a limited number of plots in the immediate surroundings of the newly
erected Tomb in the heart of the Mountain of God, and greatly accelerated
through the purchase of extensive properties following the Master's
passing, necessitated by the unprecedented influx of immigrants to the
Holy Land, is now further reinforced, raising the total area owned on the
slopes of the Holy Mountain to almost fifty acres.

Desire to acknowledge the indefatigable efforts exerted by the first
western Baha'i pilgrim since opening of the door of pilgrimage, Lawrence
Hautz, in hastening the successful termination of the protracted
negotiations with the civil authorities of the Holy Land.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, April 3, 1952]

GOD'S AVENGING WRATH

Inform National Assemblies that God's avenging wrath having afflicted in
rapid succession during recent years two sons, brother and sister-in-law
of Archbreaker of Baha'u'llah's Covenant, has now struck down second son
of Siyyid 'Ali, Nayer Afnan, pivot of machinations, connecting link
between old and new Covenant-breakers. Time alone will reveal extent of
havoc wreaked by this virus of violation injected, fostered over two
decades in 'Abdu'l-Baha's family. History will brand him one whose
grandmother, wife of Baha'u'llah, joined breakers of His Covenant on
morrow of His passing, whose parents lent her undivided support, whose
father openly accused 'Abdu'l-Baha as one deserving capital punishment,
who broke his promise to the Bab's wife to escort her to Holy Land,
precipitating thereby her death, who was repeatedly denounced by Center of
the Covenant as His chief enemy, whose eldest brother through deliberate
misrepresentation of facts inflicted humiliation upon defenders of the
House of Baha'u'llah in Ba_gh_dad, whose sister-in-law is championing the
cause of declared enemies of Faith, whose brothers supported him
attributing to 'Abdu'l-Baha responsibility for fatal disease which
afflicted their mother, who himself in retaliation first succeeded in
winning over through marriage my eldest sister, subsequently paved way for
marriage of his brothers to two