s not need to be in the heart of the city; it could be in the suburbs
and an area of ten thousand square metres would be sufficient, less if
necessary. The Chicago Temple only seats 1200 people so it is not a very
large building. Your Temple could be smaller and competitive designs be
submitted. But the first step is to investigate the sites available and
inform the Guardian.

The step to which he attaches at present the greatest importance is the
dispatch of pioneers under the auspices of your Assembly to the virgin
territories alloted to the German and Austrian Baha'is under the Ten-Year
Plan. Naturally, at present it is out of the question to think of sending
anyone into the Soviet-dominated countries. But every effort should be
made to get someone off to Greece, a very important country and far too
long neglected. This Holy Year should witness, or at least this calendar
year, the filling of all goal posts which are not behind the Iron Curtain.
He hopes that some one of the friends will be able to find a position in
Greece, or to be sent there by you.

Likewise of great importance is the multiplication of centers on the home
front, particularly in Austria where such slow progress has been made. If
Austria is to have an independent National Assembly the work in that
country must be greatly accelerated in order to provide sufficient local
assemblies to serve as a firm foundation for the National Assembly. He
hopes that members of the German community will visit and teach there, and
use be made of any friends from other countries who may be able to work
there under the guidance of your assembly.

His loving thoughts and prayers are with you always, you may be sure....

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers:

The expansion and consolidation of the institutions of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, as a result of the operation of the Plan initiated by your
Assembly, on the morrow of one of the severest ordeals which has ever
afflicted the German Baha'i Community, marks a chapter of the highest
importance in the annals of the Faith in both Germany and Austria and will
be regarded by posterity as a milestone of historic significance in the
evolution of the Faith on the European Continent. I greatly value the
exertions of both the German and Austrian Baha'i Communities which have,
in recent years contributed so decisively to the rise and establishment of
the Baha'i Administrative Order in the heart of that Continent,