The news that the difficulties, which for a time prevailed and threatened
grave disturbances between the N.S.A. and the Local Assemblies, have
vanished, was a source of great satisfaction and gratification to him. We
were quite sure that it was all due to misunderstandings and that they
would be easily overcome...
In a letter which I have lately written to Seyed Jenabe Ali on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi, I intimated his desire that a special committee of the
N.S.A. should be created to undertake the management of everything
pertaining to the Kaukab. Furthermore, if a certain sum is offered to the
National Fund with the expressed desire that it should be spent for the
Kaukab, i.e., if the offer is labelled, then the N.S.A. should take into
consideration the wish of the giver and spend it only for that purpose.
Though the friends are advised to give unlabelled contributions they
cannot in any way be prevented from using their choice in the way it
should be spent.
Though the Local Assemblies should give the N.S.A. all the moral and
financial support the latter needs, it is the duty of the N.S.A. to
inspire the necessary confidence in keeping the management of its work as
efficiently as possible.
In a cable recently sent to the N.S.A. Shoghi Effendi recommended the
publication of the Kaukab. He desires this paper to play an important role
in drawing the attention of the more thoughtful and seeking people to the
potency of this divine Cause. I herein enclose a cheque for L19 which
Shoghi Effendi desires to be spent for this all important organ of the
Cause in India.
[From the Guardian:]
I am enclosing a general message, clearly worded, emphatically expressed,
and vitally important in all its bearings, conveyed through Mirza Mahmood
to the National Assembly for the information of all Baha'is in India and
Burma. I am sure you will promptly and effectively take all necessary
measures for its dissemination throughout India and Burma. The 'Kaukab'
must, at all costs be continued, and I feel that its two editors ... are
the most suitable to form a committee which will conduct its affairs under
the direct supervision of the National Assembly. Whatever is contributed
to the National Assembly for a specific purpose should be expended for
that purpose only, but I would encourage the friends to send unlabelled
contributions in order not to tie the hands of the National Assembly
although I do not in the least require them to do so. I will pray for your
success from all my heart.