• The British community is to lead the campaign supported by the Bahá'ís of the United States and Egypt. [UD245]
• For the objectives of the campaign see UD245–6.
• For the importance of the enterprise see UD260–3.
• The plan is to be launched after a year's respite but the British Bahá'ís begin to implement the plan immediately. [CB317]
• At the time of the Campaign there was "one National Spiritual Assembly with its seat in Cairo, Egypt, the opening of 12 countries to the light of the Faith, and some 50 localities established throughout its vast lands." [Message from the Universal House of Justice To the Friends gathered at the Bahá'í International Conference at Lagos dated 19 August, 1982.]

• The number of sovereign states and dependencies where the Faith is established reaches 100, an increase of 22 countries since 1944.

• His wife, Shirin Fozdar, joins him in September 1950.

• 177 Bahá'ís from 22 countries attend.

• For Shoghi Effendi's message to the Bahá'ís on this occasion see BW12:191–3.
• For accounts of commemorations around the world see BW12:205–8.
• A small group of Bahá'í pilgrims visit the site of the Báb's martyrdom and other places associated with His life. [BW12:217–26]
• The columned arcade and parapet of the Shrine of the Báb are completed. [ZK284–5]

• They, together with Ben and Gladys Weeden who are already there, are told that they will constitute the International Bahá'í Council. [PP251–2]

• A close companion of Mírzá Muḥammad-'Alí. [CoB165]
• All his family became Covenant-breakers. [CoB362]
• He had a short-lived repentance. [CoB152-3, GPB263, Historical Dictionary of the Baha'i Faith p321, Interview with Badi'u'llah by Howard MacNutt]
• He opposed both 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. [CoB165]
• He may have written a brochure entitled "The Epistle to the Bahá'í World". [FT28]

• Bahá'ís are dismissed from government positions. [BW18:390]
• Fifty Bahá'í employees of the public hospital in Mashhad are dismissed. [BW18:390]

• Shoghi Effendi calls this ‘a notable step in the progress of Bahá'í women of the Middle East'. [MBW12]

• He is best known for being the first person to teach the Greenlanders to ski and for having organized the first ski competition in West Greenland.

"Proclaim National Assemblies of East and West weighty epoch-making decision of formation of first International Bahá'í Council, forerunner of supreme administrative institution destined to emerge in fullness of time within precincts beneath shadow of World Spiritual Center of Faith already established in twin cities of 'Akká and Haifa...."

• See UD261 for the significance of the establishment of the International Bahá'í Council.

• establish links with the Israeli authorities, and
• negotiate with them concerning an establishing of a Bahá'í court to deal with personal matters,
• Shoghi Effendi to complete the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb
• as an international Bahá'í secretariat.

  This body functioned until the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963.

• It is a forerunner to the Universal House of Justice. [BBD118]
• For its functions see MBW7–8.
• Its seat is the Western Pilgrim House. [BBD178]
• For the stages of its evolution see CB324.