INTRODUCTION—Continued
The following was added to Soheil Afnán’s letter by Shoghi Effendi:
My very dear co-workers:
I trust that the matters explained on my behalf and at my request are clear and plain to you and that the alterations and additions I have suggested will be incorporated without any difficulty in Volume II. . . . I would also remind you of the absolute necessity of adhering faithfully throughout the pages of the Book to the correct system of transliteration, which if consistently adopted and followed will facilitate the pronunciation of Oriental terms with which the friends in the West are to be closely and increasingly associated in future. The Year Book should prove a model and help to them all. I fully and whole-heartedly approve of the idea of having the American National Assembly authorize the Year Book Committee to invite the co-operation and active participation of competent representative believers outside the United States and Canada for the strengthening of the very valuable work you are doing for our beloved Cause.
Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.
Complying with the wishes of the Guardian, the Editorial Committee urge all National Spiritual Assemblies, throughout the Baha'i world to co-operate with them in sending material suitable for Volume III. Photographs and articles of interest should be sent as soon as possible. Reports to be incorporated in the Survey of Current Activities, should be in the hands of the Committee by November 1929. We believe the contents of Volume II will suggest the various materials desired for such a publication as The Bahá’í World. Especially valuable are articles and photographs that show the present progress of the Cause as well as a record of past events. Suggestions for the improvement of the Book will be heartily welcomed.
The Editorial Committee are grateful for the splendid photographs sent in for Volume II. A study of the faces reveals the vitalizing power of the Word of Bahá’u’lláh, especially in the Orient, and will be a source of great inspiration to the Bahá’ís of the world.
Correspondence should be addressed to The Bahá’í World, care of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, P. O. Box 89, Wall Street Station, New York City, N . Y., United States of America.
HORACE HOLLEY,
MARIAM HANEY,
ALBERT WINDUST,
EditorialCommittee.
STAFF OF EDITORS
America—
Horace Holley, Mariam Haney, Albert Windust, Editorial Secretary,
Victoria Bedikian (Photograph Editor).
Great Britain—
George P. Simpson.
France—
Hippolyte Drefus-Barney.
Germany—
Dr. Hermann Grossmann.
Switzerland—
Jean Stannard.
Palestine—
Soheil Afnán.
Persia—
‘Abdu’l Hossein Dekhan.
India and Burma—
Hashmatulláh.
International—
Martha Root.
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