great country to an ultimate victory.

May I also take this opportunity and express the great desire of Shoghi
Effendi that the National Assembly should try to be in close communication
with him. To him it is a joy beyond words to try to do all in his power to
help you in the noble work you have undertaken.

[From the Guardian:]

Now that the N.S.A. has been properly constituted and its officers duly
appointed, it is incumbent upon each and all to introduce and promote such
measures as will consolidate the work that you have so well begun. The
institution of the National Fund, a Baha'i Bulletin similar to the News
Letter issued by the American N.S.A., a rigorous and well-conceived
campaign of Teaching, a continuous and purposeful endeavour to coordinate
the activities of the local Assemblies and groups throughout India and
Burma and the sending of detailed and frequent reports to the Holy Land
are among the most primary and urgent requirements of the new day that has
dawned upon India. I eagerly await your reports and assure you of my
continued prayers for the success of your arduous labours.

October 28, 1926

Publication of Kaukab

The news that the difficulties, which for a time prevailed and threatened
grave disturbances between the N.S.A. and the Local Assemblies, have
vanished, was a source of great satisfaction and gratification to him. We
were quite sure that it was all due to misunderstandings and that they
would be easily overcome...

In a letter which I have lately written to Seyed Jenabe Ali on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi, I intimated his desire that a special committee of the
N.S.A. should be created to undertake the management of everything
pertaining to the Kaukab. Furthermore, if a certain sum is offered to the
National Fund with the expressed desire that it should be spent for the
Kaukab, i.e., if the offer is labelled, then the N.S.A. should take into
consideration the wish of the giver and spend it only for that purpose.
Though the friends are advised to give unlabelled contributions they
cannot in any way be prevented from using their choice in the way it
should be spent.

Though the Local Assemblies should give the N.S.A. all the moral and
financial support the latter needs, it is the duty of the N.S.A. to
inspire the necessary confidence in keeping the management of its work as
efficiently as possible.

In a cable recently sent to the N.S.A. Shoghi Effendi recommended the
publicatio