--Issue No. 6 July-August 1925:
During June the National Assembly received the following cablegram from Shoghi Effendi:
During June the National Assembly received the following cablegram from Shoghi Effendi:
“Doctor Youness Kahn, distinguished member Persia’s
Assembly, visiting American Baha’is. Expecting far-reaching results from
consultation with him. Praying for successful Convention.”
Dr. Youness has now arrived, and will be present at the next
meeting of the National Assembly. He plans to remain in the United States
during August and, meanwhile, will visit as many Assemblies as possible. Our
Baha’i brother was sent to Europe by the Persian government on an official
mission in connection with his position as physician of the Military School of
Persia, and at Shoghi Effendi’s suggestion extended his journey to include a
visit to the American Baha’is. It was the privilege of the New York Assembly to
have Dr. Youness present at the Nineteen-day Feast, held after the return of
the delegates from Green Acre.
Dr. Youness feels profoundly the need for closer material
and spiritual association between the Baha’is of Persia and the United States,
and we hope to publish in the next News Letter his message to the American
friends. Thoroughly familiar with the need of modern industrial
developvelopments [sic] in his native land, Dr. Youness is most enthusiastic
over the possibilities of new and permanent forms of cooperation between the
believers of the two countries. While in America, he is studying hospital
methods in modern institutions of New York and Boston.