Government, setting forth the Baha'i
teachings on Universal Peace; to the Rumanian Minister in Washington on
behalf of the American Baha'is, on the occasion of the death of Queen
Marie of Rumania; and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, acquainting him
with Baha'u'llah's summons issued in His Kitab-i-Aqdas to the Presidents
of the American Republics and with certain prayers revealed by
'Abdu'l-Baha--such communications constitute in themselves a notable and
illuminating chapter in the history of the unfoldment of the Baha'i
Administrative Order.

To these must be added the communications addressed from the world center
of the Faith as well as by Baha'i national and local assemblies, whether
telegraphically or in writing, to the Palestine High Commissioner,
pleading for the delivery of the keys of the Tomb of Baha'u'llah to its
original keeper; the appeals made by Baha'i centers in East and West to
the Iraqi authorities for the restoration of the House of Baha'u'llah in
Ba_gh_dad; the subsequent appeal made to the British Secretary of State
for the Colonies, following the verdict of the Ba_gh_dad Court of Appeals
in that connection; the messages despatched to the League of Nations on
behalf of Baha'i communities in the East and in the West, in appreciation
of the official pronouncement of the Council of the League in favor of the
claims presented by the Baha'i petitioners, as well as several letters
exchanged between the International Center of the Faith, on the one hand,
and that archetype of Baha'i teachers, Martha Root, on the other, with
Queen Marie of Rumania, following the publication of her historic
appreciations of the Faith, and the messages of sympathy addressed to
Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, on behalf of the world-wide Baha'i Community,
on the occasion of the passing of her mother, and to the Duchess of Kent
following the tragic death of her husband.

Nor should we fail to make special mention of the petition forwarded by
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of 'Iraq to the Mandates
Commission of the League of Nations, as a result of the seizure of
Baha'u'llah's house in Ba_gh_dad, or of the written messages sent to King
_Gh_azi I of 'Iraq by that same Assembly, after the death of his father
and on the occasion of his marriage, or of its condolences conveyed in
writing to the present Regent of 'Iraq at the time of the sudden death of
that King, or of the communications of the National Spiritual Assemb