The Guardian attaches the greatest possible importance to the forthcoming
Inter-continental Conference to be held during the Holy Year in New Delhi;
as the National Assemblies of Persia, United States, Canada, Central and
South America, Iraq, Australia and New Zealand, as well as your own body,
are to send representatives to it, it will, through having eight N.S.A.s
pooling their thoughts and suggestions, be, no doubt, the most important
of the four Inter-continental Conferences to be held. Also, aside from the
numerical importance of the participating bodies, the vast field their
plans must embrace is truly awe-inspiring. In view of this he feels that
the members of your Assembly have very heavy responsibilities to discharge
during the coming months, and that all petty details and misunderstandings
must be put aside, once and for all, in order to ensure a brilliant
success--a success, whose repercussions must be felt during ten years of
Baha'i history between this coming great Jubilee and the Most Great
Jubilee which will take place in 1963.
As convenor of this great Conference you must lay your plans very
carefully to ensure that the representatives of the various N.S.A.s., the
visiting Hands of the Cause, the many Baha'is attending, are properly
accommodated, the sessions of the Conference held in an efficient manner,
and suitable publicity given to this event. The Guardian also suggests
that one or two private sessions could be held at which the N.S.A.
representatives and the Hands of the Cause could meet to better and more
effectively suggest plans for the future campaign. There will, naturally,
be no delegates to the Conference, as it is in no sense a convention, but
more concentrated consultation can be obtained through a smaller number
being present. No doubt you will also, without sacrificing the interests
of the Conference, make good use of any visiting teachers and lecturers.