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Nor should we fail to make special mention of the petition forwarded by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iraq to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, as a result of the seizure of Baha'u'llah's house in Baghdad, or of the written messages sent to King Ghazi I of Iraq by that same Assembly, after the death of his father and on the occasion of his marriage, or of its condolences conveyed in writing to the present Regent of Iraq at the time of the sudden death of that King, or of the communications of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt submitted to the Egyptian Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Justice, following the verdict of the Muslim ecclesiastical court in Egypt, or of the letters addressed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Persia to the Shah and to the Persian Cabinet in connection with the closing of Baha'i schools and the ban imposed on Baha'i literature in that country. Mention should, moreover, be made of the written messages despatched by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Persia to the King of Rumania and the Royal Family on the occasion of the death of his mother, Queen Marie, as well as to the Turkish Ambassador in Tihran enclosing the contribution of the Persian believers for the sufferers of the earthquake in Turkey; of Martha Root's letters to the late President Von Hindenburg and to Dr. Streseman, the German Foreign Minister, accompanying the presentation to them of Baha'i literature; of Keith Ransom- Kehler's seven successive petitions addressed to the Shah of Persia, and of her numerous communications to various ministers and high dignitaries of the realm, during her memorable visit to that land.
(344:2)
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