National Assemblies no less than sixty-four have opened their doors to the
vanguard of Baha'i Crusaders, leaving Spitzbergen and Anticosti Island,
situated respectively in the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean,
Nicobar Islands, Cocos Island and Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean,
and Loyalty Islands, Sakhalin Island and Hainan Island in the Pacific
Ocean--one of which is a native reserve, two of which are within the Soviet
orbit, while four others are either privately owned or controlled by
private companies--as yet unopened by the heroic band battling for the
Faith of Baha'u'llah.

The northern limits of the Faith in Europe have been pushed beyond the
Arctic Circle as far as 70 degrees latitude, through the settlement of a
Baha'i pioneer in Reals Kolen, Batsfjord, Finnmark, only three degrees
below Arctic Bay, Franklin, the northernmost Baha'i Center established, in
the course of the opening year of the Ten-Year Plan, in the North American
Continent. Valiant pioneers have, moreover, volunteered and are busily
engaged in devising plans, or have actually embarked on the necessary
preparations, to cross the mountain frontiers of Tibet, to enter the
Ukraine, beyond the Iron Curtain, to gain admission to the few remaining,
hitherto inaccessible islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and to
penetrate deep into the Arctic Ocean as far as the icebound island of
Spitzbergen.

NUMBER OF RACES, LANGUAGES, INCORPORATED ASSEMBLIES AUGMENTED

No less than forty races are now represented in the world-wide Baha'i
Community, which has been recently enriched through the enrollment of
representatives of the Greek, the Berber, the Pigmy, the Somali and
Guanche races. The number of localities where Baha'is now reside is well
over thirty-two hundred, of which fourteen hundred are located in the
Great Republic of the West, over six hundred in the Cradle of the Faith,
more than three hundred in the African Continent, and over one hundred
each in the Dominion of Canada, in Australasia, Latin America and in the
Indian Sub-Continent. In the African Continent alone the number of members
of the Negro race has, within the space of four years, increased to over
thirteen hundred; the number of territories opened to the Faith has
reached fifty-eight, the number of local Spiritual Assemblies already
established and functioning is now fifty, the number of tribes represented
within the swiftly expanding Baha'i Community is now over