r of the Human
Rights Division and certain specialized agencies of nongovernmental
organizations with consultative status. Furthermore, President Eisenhower
who, according to the newspapers, first mentioned the persecutions at a
Press Conference in Washington, has been appealed to by the National
representatives of the American Baha'i Community and all Assemblies and
groups in the United States to intervene on behalf of their oppressed
sister community.

Whatever the outcome of the present heart-rending events, one fact emerges
clear and indisputable. God's infant Faith, provided, through the
operation of a quarter-century-long process associated with the first
epoch of the formative age of the Faith, with the machinery of a divinely
appointed Administrative Order, and utilizing in the course of the
succeeding epoch, through the formulation of a series of national plans,
culminating in the launching of the World Crusade, the newly-born
administrative agencies for the systematic propagation of the Faith, is
now gradually emerging from obscurity in the wake of the ordeal convulsing
the overwhelming majority of the followers of the Faith.

The world-wide reverberations of this nation-wide commotion will be hailed
by posterity as the mighty blast of God's trumpet designed to awaken,
through the instrumentality of its oldest, most redoubtable, most vicious,
most fanatical adversaries, countless multitudes, and the Chancelleries
and Chief Magistrates of the East and of the West, to the existence and
implications of the Faith proclaimed by His Messenger in this Day. This
long-desired, ardently-hoped-for emergence, itself a long-drawn-out
process, is bound to pave the way for the emancipation of this same Faith
from the fetters of orthodoxy in Islamic countries, as well as the
ultimate recognition of the independent character of the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah in His homeland.

Owing to the grievous losses sustained, and the necessity to demonstrate
world-wide Baha'i solidarity, an "Aid the Persecuted" Fund has been
inaugurated for the purpose of bringing immediate relief to the despoiled
and homeless victims. Myself contributing the equivalent of eighteen
thousand dollars for this noble purpose. However conscious I am of the
manifold demands on the adherents of the Faith, I am impelled to invite
them to participate through contributions to be transmitted through their
respective National Assemblies.

Moreover, undeterred by