s world-girdling Crusade, and crown eventually
their Ten Year Plan with a victory unexampled in the annals of the Faith
in the British Isles, is my cherished hope for them and my fervent and
constant prayer.

Shoghi

Letter of 28 June 1953

28 June 1953

ADVISE PROMPT MEASURES OUTRIGHT PURCHASE HAZIRA LONDON CONTRIBUTING TWO
THOUSAND POUNDS ENCOURAGING NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES.

SHOGHI

Letter of 30 June 1953

30 June 1953

GUARDIAN URGES PROMPT HANDLING VOLUNTEERS KAMPALA NAIROBI DAR-ES-SALAAM
FOR IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT....

IOAS

Letter of 9 July 1953

9 July 1953(72)

ADVISE FREEHOLD PURCHASE. SHOGHI

Letter of 18 July 1953

18 July 1953(73)

IF LESS EXPENSIVE NOT AVAILABLE APPROVE. SHOGHI

Letter of 21 July 1953

21 July 1953

To the Hands of the Cause, the members of the National Spiritual
Assemblies, the pioneers, the resident believers and visitors attending
the European Intercontinental Teaching Conference in Stockholm, Sweden
(July 21/26, 1953). Well-beloved Friends,

With a glad and grateful heart I welcome the convocation, in the capital
city of Sweden, of the third of a series of Intercontinental Teaching
Conferences associated with the world-wide festivities commemorating the
Centenary of the Mission of Baha'u'llah and destined to exert a profound
and lasting influence on the immediate fortunes of His Faith in all
continents of the globe.

I look back with feelings of wonder, thankfulness and joy upon the chain
of memorable circumstances which, a little over a century ago, accompanied
the introduction of the Faith into, and marked the inception of its
nascent institutions within a continent which, in the course of the last
two thousand years, has exercised on the destiny of the human race a
pervasive influence unequalled by that of any other continent of the
globe.

I feel impelled on this historic occasion, when the members of the
American, the British, the German and the newly formed Italo-Swiss
National Spiritual Assemblies, as well as representatives of the Baha'is
of the United Kingdom, of Eire, of Germany, of Austria, of the
Scandinavian and Benelux countries, of the Iberian Peninsula, of Italy, of
Switzerland, of France and of Finland are assembled, to pay a warm tribute
to the valiant labours of the early British and French Baha'i pioneers,
who at the very dawn of the Faith in Europe, strove with such diligence,
consecration and resolu