anching subsets that serve
particular needs.

129 Shoghi Effendi, _God Passes By_, _op. cit._, p. xiii.

130 'Abdu'l-Baha, _The Promulgation of Universal Peace,_ _op. cit._, pp.
43-44.

131 Moojan Momen, _The Babi and Baha'i Religions, 1844-1944: Some
Contemporary Western Accounts_, _op. cit._, pp. 186-187.

_ 132 The Baha'i World_, vol. XV, _op. cit._, pp. 29, 36.

_ 133 The Baha'i World_, vol. IV (New York City: Baha'i Publishing
Committee, 1933), pp. 257-261. Provides a short history of the
bureau's founding and operations.

_ 134 The Baha'i World_, vol. III (New York City: Baha'i Publishing
Committee, 1930), pp. 198-206. Contains the text of a formal
Petition to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League from the
Baha'is of Iraq, that summarizes the history of the case.

135 Shoghi Effendi, _God Passes By_, _op. cit._, p. 360.

136 The full text of the Declaration may be found in _World Order
Magazine_, April 1947, vol. XIII, No. 1.

_ 137 The Baha'i Question, Iran's Secret Blueprint for the Destruction of
a Religious Community, An Examination of the Persecution of the
Baha'is of Iran_ (New York: Baha'i International Community, 1999),
prepared by the Baha'i International Community United Nations'
Office for distribution to members of the United Nations Human
Rights Commission.

138 Excerpt from an address by Edward Granville Browne, published in_
Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of
Comparative Religion_, 3rd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1892), pp.
352-353.

139 During the nine years of its existence, the office was responsible
for settling an estimated 10,000 Iranian Baha'i refugees in
twenty-seven countries.

140 To date, ninety-nine National Spiritual Assemblies have received
intensive training in the programme.

141 The Beijing Conference on Women would have permitted fifty out of
the two thousand non-governmental organizations involved to present
their statements orally. Because the Baha'i International Community
had received this privilege at previous conferences, most notably
that in Rio de Janeiro on the environment and that in Copenhagen on
social and economic development, the Community's representatives
yielded the slot that had been accorded them, in favour of the
Moscow Centre for