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To these must be added the communications addressed from the world center of the Faith as well as by Baha'i national and local assemblies, whether telegraphically or in writing, to the Palestine High Commissioner, pleading for the delivery of the keys of the Tomb of Baha'u'llah to its original keeper; the appeals made by Baha'i centers in East and West to the Iraqi authorities for the restoration of the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad; the subsequent appeal made to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, following the verdict of the Baghdad Court of Appeals in that connection; the messages despatched to the League of Nations on behalf of Baha'i communities in the East and in the West, in appreciation of the official pronouncement of the Council of the League in favor of the claims presented by the Baha'i petitioners, as well as several letters exchanged between the International Center of the Faith, on the one hand, and that archetype of Baha'i teachers, Martha Root, on the other, with Queen Marie of Rumania, following the publication of her historic appreciations of the Faith, and the messages of sympathy addressed to Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, on behalf of the world- wide Baha'i Community, on the occasion of the passing of her mother, and to the Duchess of Kent following the tragic death of her husband.
(344:1)
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