Third announcement: Following upon the missions entrusted to the Hands of
the Cause in connection with the establishment of Hazíratu’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 Bahá’ís of Italy and Switzerland.
Advise United States National Assembly arrange, through European Teaching
Committee, the election on the occasion of Naw-Rúz 1953 of nineteen
delegates by all local Assemblies already established in both countries.
Urge convocation Ridván same year, in the city of Florence, on the
occasion of the festivities of the Bahá’í Holy Year of the first
Convention for the express purpose of electing through the delegates the
projected National Assembly. Appeal to the American Bahá’í community,
particularly the Bahá’ís 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 Bahá’í World a specific plan enabling it, in conjunction
with its sister National Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá’í 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
Bahá’u’lláh in the remaining states, dependencies and islands of the whole
planet. Invite the attendants to the third Bahá’í 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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