ntroceni Palace in Bucharest, the
second in 1927 in Pelisor Palace in Sinaia, followed by a visit in January
of the ensuing year to her Majesty and her daughter Princess Ileana, at
the royal palace in Belgrade, where they were staying as guests of the
King and Queen of Yugoslavia, and later, in October, 1929, at the Queen's
summer palace "Tehna Yuva," at Balcic, on the Black Sea, and again, in
August, 1932 and February, 1933, at the home of Princess Ileana (now
Arch-Duchess Anton of Austria) at Moedling, near Vienna, followed a year
later, in February, by another audience at Controceni Palace, and lastly,
in February, 1936, in that same palace--these audiences stand out, by
reason of the profound influence exerted by the visitor on her royal
hostess, as witnessed by the successive encomiums from the Queen's own
pen, as the most outstanding feature of those memorable journeys. The
three invitations which that indefatigable champion of the Faith received
to call on Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia at the Royal Palace
in Belgrade; the lectures which she delivered in over four hundred
universities and colleges in both the East and the West; her twice
repeated visits to all German universities with the exception of two, as
well as to nearly a hundred universities, colleges and schools in China;
the innumerable articles which she published in newspapers and magazines
in practically every country she visited; the numerous broadcasts which
she delivered and the unnumbered books she placed in private and state
libraries; her personal meetings with the statesmen of more than fifty
countries, during her three-months stay in Geneva, in 1932, at the time of
the Disarmament Conference; the painstaking efforts she exerted, while on
her arduous journeys, in supervising the translation and production of a
large number of versions of Dr. Esslemont's "Baha'u'llah and the New Era";
the correspondence exchanged with, and the presentation of Baha'i books
to, men of eminence and learning; her pilgrimage to Persia, and the
touching homage paid by her to the memory of the heroes of the Faith when
visiting the Baha'i historic sites in that country; her visit to
Adrianople, where, in her overflowing love for Baha'u'llah, she searched
out the houses where He had dwelt and the people whom He had met during
His exile to that city, and where she was entertained by its governor and
mayor; the ready and unfailing assistance extended by her to t