Announce friends East and West, through National Assemblies, following
nominations raising the number of the present Hands of the Cause of God to
nineteen. Dominion Canada and United States, Fred Schopflocher and Corinne
True, respectively. Cradle of Faith, _Dh_ikru'llah _Kh_adem,
_Sh_u'a'u'llah 'Ala'i. Germany, Africa, Australia, Adelbert Muehlschlegel,
Musa Banani, Clara Dunn, respectively. Members august body invested in
conformity with 'Abdu'l-Baha's Testament, twofold sacred function, the
propagation and preservation of the unity of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, and
destined to assume individually in the course of time the direction of
institutions paralleling those revolving around the Universal House of
Justice, the supreme legislative body of the Baha'i world, are now
recruited from all five continents of the globe and representative of the
three principal world religions of mankind. Recently urged newly-appointed
Hand of Canada, on occasion of his pilgrimage to Holy Land, to undertake
preliminary measures, in conjunction with Canadian National Assembly for
the establishment of national Haziratu'l-Quds similar to those already
founded in Teheran, Wilmette, Ba_gh_dad, Sydney, Frankfurt, Cairo and New
Delhi. Identical instructions were given appointed Hand of Africa in
course of his just concluded pilgrimage, for the acquisition of property
in Kampala to serve as local Haziratu'l-Quds to synchronize with formation
of first Assembly in heart of Africa, to be regarded as nucleus of
national administrative headquarters of Faith destined to arise on morrow
of formation of National Spiritual Assembly of Central and Eastern
Territories of African continent.
--Shoghi
[Cablegram, February 29, 1952]