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Second announcement: The enlargement of the International Baha'i Council. Present membership now comprises: Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih, chosen liaison between me and the Council. Hands of the Cause, Mason Remey, Amelia Collins, Ugo Giachery, Leroy Ioas, President, Vice-President, member at large, Secretary-General, respectively. Jessie Revell, Ethel Revell, Lotfull h Hakim, Treasurer, Western and Eastern assistant Secretaries. (22:2) Third announcement: Following upon the missions entrusted to the Hands of the Cause in connection with the establishment of Haziratu'l-Quds in the Dominion of Canada and Central Africa, have instructed Ugo Giachery to take in conjunction with the European Teaching Committee, immediate steps, after the conclusion of his pilgrimage, aiming at the formation, ere the termination of the American Community's second Seven Year Plan, of the first National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy and Switzerland. Advise United States National Assembly arrange, through European Teaching Committee, the election on the occasion of Naw-Ruz 1953 of nineteen delegates by all local Assemblies already established in both countries. Urge convocation Ridvan same year, in the city of Florence, on the occasion of the festivities of the Baha'i Holy Year of the first Convention for the express purpose of electing through the delegates the projected National Assembly. Appeal to the American Baha'i community, particularly the Baha'is residing in Italy and Switzerland, to exert their utmost to insure in the course of the coming year the multiplication of Spiritual Assemblies in both countries, thereby broadening the basis of the projected pillar of the future Universal House of Justice. Advise European Teaching Committee, upon consummation of the glorious enterprise to issue formal invitation to their spiritual offspring, the newly-emerged National Assembly, to participate, together with its sister National Assemblies of the United States, the British Isles, and Germany, in the Intercontinental Conference in August of the same year in the capital city of Sweden. Anticipate entrusting to the youngest among the twelve National Assemblies of the Baha'i World a specific plan enabling it, in conjunction with its sister National Spiritual Assemblies of the Baha'i World, to promote in the course of the ten years separating the second from the Most Great Jubilee the Global Crusade designed to hoist the standard of Baha'u'llah in the remaining states, dependencies and islands of the whole planet. Invite the attendants to the third Baha'i Intercontinental Conference to befittingly commemorate the undreamt-of climax of the brilliant victories won in the course of the second Seven Year Plan, eclipsing the feats accomplished in the Latin American field in the course of the first Seven Year Plan and presaging the tremendous triumph to be won in the course of the third Seven Year Plan in the African, Asiatic and Australian continents.
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