June 9. On this date in 1957, a cable sent by Horace Holley on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia noted "restitution of Bahá'í properties" in Iran and expressed "deepest gratitude" to "his Majesty Muhammad Riza Pahlavi Shahin Shah...Bahá'ís are praying for Divine Blessings for his Throne." The cable also stated to "avoid press, radion, or other publicity regarding restoration (of) this property."

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une 9. On this date in 1957, a cable sent by Horace Holley on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia noted "restitution of Bahá'í properties" in Iran and expressed "deepest gratitude" to "his Majesty Muhammad Riza Pahlavi Shahin Shah...Bahá'ís are praying for Divine Blessings for his Throne." The cable also stated to "avoid press, radion, or other publicity regarding restoration (of) this property."

9 June 1957 [Australian National Assembly]
JOYFUL ANNOUNCEMENT ANOTHER VICTORY WON IN CRADLE FAITH SWIFTLY FOLLOWING CRUSHING DEFEAT RECENTLY SUSTAINED BY COVENANT BREAKERS IN HOLY LAND (see note) STOP NATIONAL HAZIRATULQUDS TEHRAN RETURNED COMPLETING THEREBY RESTITUTION BAHAI PROPERTIES SEIZED AT INSTIGATION OF TRADITIONAL ENEMIES IN BAHAULLAHS NATIVE LAND STOP YOUR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ALSO ALL LOCAL ASSEMBLIES UNDER YOUR JURISDICTION ADVISED CABLE HIS MAJESTY MUHAMMAD RIZA PAHLAVI SHAHIN SHAH OF IRAN TEHERAN IRAN EXPRESSING DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR IRANIAN GOVERNMENTS ACTION IN RESTITUTION NATIONAL BAHAI HEADQUARTERS AND ASSURING HIS MAJESTY BAHAIS ARE PRAYING FOR DIVINE BLESSINGS FOR HIS THRONE FOR PROSPERITY HIS GOVERNMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT HIGH DESTINY HIS BELOVED COUNTRY STOP IMPORTANT AVOID PRESS RADIO OR OTHER PUBLICITY REGARDING RESTORATION THIS PROPERTY STOP LETTER FOLLOWS STOP SENT GUARDIAN COPIES ALL CABLED MESSAGES ISSUED YOUR NATIONAL AND LOCAL ASSEMBLIES - HOLLEY

On the same day, an almost identical cable was sent to believers in the Benelux

GUARDIAN CABLES JOYFUL ANNOUNCEMENT YET ANOTHER VICTORY WON IN CRADLE FAITH SWIFTLY FOLLOWING CRUSHING DEFEAT RECENTLY SUSTAINED BY COVENANT BREAKERS IN HOLY LAND (see note) STOP NATIONAL HAZIRATU’L-QUDS TEHERAN RETURNED COMPLETING THEREBY RESTITUTION BAHA'I PROPERTIES SEIZED AT INSTIGATION OF TRADITIONAL ENEMIES IN BAHA’U’LLAH’S NATIVE LAND STOP YOUR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ALSO ALL LOCAL ASSEMBLIES UNDER YOUR JURISDICTION ADVISED CABLE HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY MOHAMMED RIZA PAHLAVI SHAHINSHAH OF IRAN TEHERAN IRAN EXPRESSING DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR IRANIAN GOVERNMENT’S ACTION IN RESTITUTION NATIONAL BAHA'I HEADQUARTERS AND ASSURING HIS MAJESTY BAHA'IS ARE PRAYING FOR DIVINE BLESSINGS FOR HIS THRONE FOR PROSPERITY HIS GOVERNMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT HIGH DESTINY HIS BELOVED COUNTRY STOP IMPORTANT AVOID PRESS RADIO OR OTHER PUBLICITY REGARDING RESTORATION THIS PROPERTY STOP LETTER FOLLOWS STOP SEND GUARDIAN COPIES ALL CABLED MESSAGES ISSUED YOUR NATIONAL AND LOCAL ASSEMBLIES - HOLLEY - SECRETARY

(note) Six days previous, on June 3, 1957, Shoghi Effendi had addressed a cablegram announcing "Epoch-Making Victory Won Over Covenant-Breakers."

Epoch-Making Victory Won Over Covenant-Breakers
With feelings of profound joy, exultation and thankfulness, announce on morrow of sixty-fifth Anniversary of Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, signal, epoch-making victory won over the ignoble band of breakers of His Covenant which, in the course of over six decades, has entrenched itself in the precincts of the Most Holy Shrine of the Bahá'í world, provoking through acts of overt hostility and ingenious machinations, in alliance with external enemies under three successive regimes, the wrath of the Lord of the Covenant Himself, incurring the malediction of the Concourse on high, and filling with inexpressible anguish the heart of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The expropriation order issued by the Israeli government, mentioned in the recent Convention Message, related to the entire property owned by Covenant-breakers within the Haram-i-Aqdas, recently contested by these same enemies through appeal to Israel's Supreme Court, now confirmed through adverse decision just announced by same Court, enabling the civil authorities to enforce the original decision and proceed with the eviction of the wretched remnants of the once redoubtable adversaries who, both within the Holy Land and beyond its confines, labored so long and so assiduously to disrupt the foundations of the Faith, sap their loyalty and cause a permanent cleavage in the ranks of its supporters. This final, shattering and most humiliating blow may well be regarded as the culmination in the long series of reverses suffered by these same relentless foes, marked by the repudiation of their preposterous claims following the Passing of Bahá'u'lláh, by the overwhelming majority of His followers, east and west; by the abject failure of 'Abdu'l-Hamid, as well as the notorious Commission of Inquiry, to banish 'Abdu'l-Bahá to Fezzan; by the ignominious defeat of the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, the cruel, boastful Jamál Páshá, following his threat to crucify the Center of the Covenant outside the main gate of the fortress City of 'Akká; by acquisition of the site for the construction of the Báb's Sepulcher; by the restitution of the keys to the Most Holy Tomb and the recognition by the British authorities of the right of the Bahá'í world community to the custodianship of the Bahá'í Shrines; by the establishment of the international Bahá'í endowments on Mt. Carmel; by the formation of the Palestine branches of the Bahá'í National Assemblies; by exhumation of the Brother and Mother of `Abdu'l-Bahá and reburial in the neighborhood of the Báb's resting place; by the evacuation by these same adversaries of the Mansion of Bahjí, after forty years' occupancy; by the demise, in distressing circumstances, of the archbreaker of the Covenant himself; by the ignominious flight of his henchmen on the eve of the disturbances which rocked the Holy Land in recent years; by the deaths with dramatic swiftness of this same lieutenant, his kindred and closest associates; by the intervention of the Israeli government in denying the competence of the civil courts to adjudicate the case brought by the remnant of these same Covenant-breakers and the subsequent authorization issued by the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to demolish the ruined building close to the vicinity of Bahá'u'lláh's Tomb; finally, by the extinction of the life of the prime mover in the diabolical plans directed during the course of three decades against 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The implementation of this order will, at long last, cleanse the Outer Sanctuary of the Qiblih of the Bahá'í world of the pollution staining the fair name of the Faith and pave the way for the adoption and execution of preliminary measures designed to herald the construction in future decades of the stately, befitting Mausoleum designed to enshrine the holiest dust the earth ever received into its bosom.
Share announcement Hands of the Cause and all National Assemblies. --Shoghi [Cablegram, June 3, 1957]