June 21. On this date in 1935, Shoghi Effendi wrote a letter to Edward Keith-Roach, governor of Jerusalem under the British Mandate of Palestine, as reported on page 281 of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum's The Priceless Pearl, in the chapter titled The Rise of the World Centre.

 

June 21. On this date in 1935, Shoghi Effendi wrote a letter to Edward Keith-Roach, governor of Jerusalem under the British Mandate of Palestine, as reported on page 281 of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum's The Priceless Pearl, in the chapter titled The Rise of the World Centre.

In another letter, dated 21 June 1935, Shoghi Effendi, in calling Keith-Roach's attention to matters connected with a court case, says: "Any assistance you can find it possible to extend in this respect would, I am sure, be deeply appreciated by me no less than by the various Bahá'í Assemblies whose interests I represent." Throughout his ministry Shoghi Effendi always let it be known very clearly to officials that, although he was the Head of the Faith, behind him stood a great concourse of Bahá'ís in many countries, ready to back up, with all the power they possessed, his claims and demands; and in expressing his thanks, he very often included their sentiments of gratitude and appreciation along with his own.