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Dear Bahá’í Friends: Enclosed is the beloved Guardian’s message to all Bahá’í Conventions. He would like you to please share it with the delegates and friends attending your National Convention. He hopes it will stimulate the teaching work, and particularly the pioneer work.... 7 April 1956
The members of the International Council greatly appreciate your warm Naw-Rúz greetings, which they reciprocate most heartily. We will pray at the Shrines that every success will attend your efforts; and that the most important subject of the Temple grounds and Temple land will be satisfactorily settled in the very near future.... 6 April 1956
You should endeavor to use such materials as are not too expensive, and yet satisfactory for the Temple. 15 November 1956 Dearly Beloved Sister: The Beloved Guardian has directed me to write you concerning the purchase of the Endowment for Austria. He hopes very much it will be possible for you to purchase this Endowment before Ridván 1957.
He is becoming fearful that the Temple will not be built in Germany, during the Ten Year Crusade, unless there is some strong immediate action taken in connection with the purchase of the land, and then the prosecution of the construction work. Will your Assembly please let me know by return airmail, what the status is of the land purchase.... 27 September 1956
Dear Bahá’í Co-workers: The Beloved Guardian, as you know, is very anxious to have the matter of the land for the Temple near Frankfurt decided as quickly as possible, and he is hoping the decision of the court will be favorably announced in the near future. Will you please cable me, just as soon as a decision is given, just what it is, so I may hand it to the Guardian at once.... 21 June 1956
Sommerau that I would see that her pamphlet was financed, and I have had some correspondence with her and Marion Little concerning the matter. As developments occur, I will be glad to let you know.... The Guardian sends his loving Greetings to the members of the N.S.A. 27 April 1956
The Guardian wishes you to bear this important matter in mind, for in time, the full Secretariat must be established in the Hazírá.... 7 July 1956 Mrs. Anna Grossmann: The June 1956 issue of “Pflanze und Garten” issued in Darmstadt, Nicolaiweg 9, has an article on the Faith, and a number of photographs of the Gardens and Shrine of the Báb, as well as the Mansion at Bahjí.
If your two NSA’s set up a General Translating Committee, I am sure great results would be achieved. I am sending Mrs. ..., some views of the Shrines and Gardens, which I hope will give her happiness.... 19 May 1956 Dear Friends: The Beloved Guardian has directed me to write you concerning the court case relating to the Temple Land near Eschborn.
It was the same old story: Miller was an experienced pilot, a former Air Force instructor and air freight pilot with several thousand hours flying time. Commercial pilots came in for more than their share of the sightings in 1956. On January 22, UFO investigators talked to the crew of a Pan American airliner.
In November 1956, Lester Bowles Pearson, then External Affairs Minister and later Prime Minister of Canada, secured the creation by the United Nations of its first international peacekeeping force, an achievement which won its author the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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