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To these must be added the communications addressed from the world center of the Faith as well as by Baha'i national and local assemblies, whether telegraphically or in writing, to the Palestine High Commissioner, pleading for the delivery of the keys of the Tomb of Baha'u'llah to its original keeper; the appeals made by Baha'i centers in East and West to the Iraqi authorities for the restoration of the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad; the subsequent appeal made to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, following the verdict of the Baghdad Court of Appeals in that connection; the messages despatched to the League of Nations on behalf of Baha'i communities in the East and in the West, in appreciation of the official pronouncement of the Council of the League in favor of the claims presented by the Baha'i petitioners, as well as several letters exchanged between the International Center of the Faith, on the one hand, and that archetype of Baha'i teachers, Martha Root, on the other, with Queen Marie of Rumania, following the publication of her historic appreciations of the Faith, and the messages of sympathy addressed to Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, on behalf of the world- wide Baha'i Community, on the occasion of the passing of her mother, and to the Duchess of Kent following the tragic death of her husband. (344:1) 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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