It was General Allenby, military conqueror of Palestine in the first World War, who, under instructions from Lord Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, took measures to assure His protection.
From 1911 to 1913
‘Abdu’l-Bahá journeyed through Europe and North America, visiting the local Bahá’í communities, addressing public audiences in peace societies, universities, churches, Negro conferences and synagogues, meeting distinguished personages in government, clerical and education life and promulgating by example and eloquent speech the principles of universal peace. The roster of these distinguished persons is too extensive to include here, but the character of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s reception in the West may be indicated by naming, among many others, Archdeacon Wilberforce, Reverend R. J. Campbell, Lord Lamington, Sir Michael Sadler, the Maharajahs of Jalawar and Rajputana, Professor E. G. Browne, and Professor Patrick Geddes, in London; the Persian Minister, The Turkish Ambassador, “Church dignitaries of various branches of the Christian Tree,” in Paris; Professor Arminius Vambury, several members of Parliament, Count Albert Apponyi, Prelate Alexander Giesswein and Professor Ignatius Goldziher, in Vienna; and in America, Dr David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Alexander Graham Bell, Hon. Franklin K. lane, Mrs William Jennings Bryan, Andrew Carnegie, Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, Admirable Peary, Rabindranath Tagore.