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Second European Teaching Conference convened in the capital city of Belgium, attended by hundred and thirty representatives from nineteen countries. (4:9) The historic first all-Swiss Baha'i Conference the latest, most promising fruit of the transatlantic enterprise initiated by the American Baha'i Community, held in the Swiss capital, presaging the acquisition by the goal countries of an independent status within the family of Baha'i national Communities. (4:10) The process of extension of Baha'i endowments accelerated through the donation of twenty acre property near Anchorage, Alaska; purchase of twenty-two acres in neighborhood of Auckland, site of projected New Zealand summer school; grant of burial ground by Egyptian authorities to Port Said Baha'i Community. (4:11) Ties binding the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations reinforced through participation in European Regional Conference of nongovernmental organizations in Geneva; and in Latin American Conferences in Chile, Uruguay; and in similar conferences in Kansas and Lake Success; through submission in response to the request of the UNO Committee of statement on the Baha'i concept and method of community worship, subsequently transmitted to the Secretariat responsible for the planning of permanent headquarters in the United Nations.
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