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Reacting to these barbarous acts, over a thousand groups and local Assemblies of the Baha'i world appealed telegraphically to the authorities, and all National Assemblies addressed written communications to the Shah, the government and parliament, pleading for justice and protection. (89:3) Finding written pleas unanswered, an appeal has been lodged with United Nations by representatives of the International Baha'i Community at Geneva. Copies of the appeal were delivered to representatives of member nations of the Social and Economic Council, the Director of the Human Rights Division and certain specialized agencies of nongovernmental organizations with consultative status. Furthermore, President Eisenhower who, according to the newspapers, first mentioned the persecutions at a Press Conference in Washington, has been appealed to by the National representatives of the American Baha'i Community and all Assemblies and groups in the United States to intervene on behalf of their oppressed sister community. (89:4) Whatever the outcome of the present heart-rending events, one fact emerges clear and indisputable. God's infant Faith, provided, through the operation of a quarter-century-long process associated with the first epoch of the formative age of the Faith, with the machinery of a divinely appointed Administrative Order, and utilizing in the course of the succeeding epoch, through the formulation of a series of national plans, culminating in the launching of the World Crusade, the newly-born administrative agencies for the systematic propagation of the Faith, is now gradually emerging from obscurity in the wake of the ordeal convulsing the overwhelming majority of the followers of the Faith.
(89:5)
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