Flemish and French neighbors, whose conversion
will considerably enrich the diversity of the races to be included within
the orbit of its operation; in the extreme South, in the Italian
Peninsula, the cradle of a far-famed civilization and the seat and
stronghold of the most powerful Church in Christendom; in the very heart
of that continent, amidst a freedom-loving, peace-pursuing, high-minded
people, the prosecutors of the second Seven Year Plan must, preferably in
the capitals of these countries, arise to establish, on an unassailable
foundation, the structural basis of the nascent institutions of their
Faith, which future promoters of the Divine Plan must, in the course of
succeeding epochs, enlarge, and thereon erect the mightiest edifices of
that Faith. Any assistance which the National Spiritual Assemblies of the
Baha'is of the British Isles and of Germany can, through the
instrumentality of their Publishing Committees and other agencies, extend,
any facilities which the establishment of an Office, acting as an adjunct
to the International Baha'i Bureau in Geneva can provide, should be
promptly and fully utilized for the speedy accomplishment of the initial
tasks to be undertaken in Europe under the present Seven Year Plan.

Through the prompt settlement of nine wholly dedicated souls, aglow with
enthusiasm and keenly aware of the plight of the peoples for whose sake
they are abandoning the comfort and security of their homeland, and who
will head the Roll of Honor as the curtain rises on this new and glorious
phase of American Baha'i enterprise; through the dispatch of itinerant
teachers who, either delegated by the American National Spiritual Assembly
or of their own accord, will cross and re-cross the vast distances, now
providentially shrunk, which separate the old and new worlds, who will
assiduously water the seeds sown by these pioneers, consolidate the work
already started by isolated believers, and act as intermediaries between
the various groups which, as the present Plan develops, must evolve into
Spiritual Assemblies; through the vigorous dissemination of literature,
properly translated, promptly printed, and comprehensive in range, in
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and each of the
Scandinavian languages; through a steady process of concentration on a few
receptive souls, who can be relied upon to embrace, wholeheartedly and
with alacrity, the truth of the Faith, identify themselve