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Date 1950-11, sorted by date, descending

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1950 (Near end of year)
195-
Shoghi Effendi entered into negotiations with the government of Israel to exchange some farm land near the border with Jordan for the same acreage in the vicinity of the Shrine and the Mansion in Bahjí. The difficult and protracted talks lasted two years and involved Mr Hautz and Leroy Ioas, who in March 1952, had become the General Secretariat of the International Bahá'í Council and so had become the lead on the negotiations. [SETPE1p124-125] * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel
1950 1 Nov
195-
Mírzá Badí'u'lláh, the youngest son of Bahá'u'lláh, (b.1867 in Adrianople) described by Shoghi Effendi as the 'chief lieutenant' of the 'archbreaker' of the 'divine Covenant' died. [CB340, 355–6; CF89, BIC162, MSBR63, BBR460, RoB3pg230, CH209, SoB92, CoB340, 355-6, CoF89]
  • A close companion of Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí. [CoB165]
  • All his family became Covenant-breakers. [CoB362]
  • He had a short-lived repentance. [CoB152-3, GPB263, Historical Dictionary of the Bahá'í Faith p321, Interview with Badi'u'llah by Howard MacNutt]
  • He opposed both 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. [CoB165] As an example, in 1939 when Shoghi Effendi proposed to relocate the remains of Mirza Mihdí and Ásíyih Khánum from 'Akka to Haifa, it was Mírzá Badí'u'lláh who led the dissenting faction claiming that as he was more closely related to Mirza Mihdí, it was he, under Moslem law, who had the right to decide as to the disposal of the remains. [BBR460-461]
  • - Bahá'í World Centre; - Biography; Covenant-breaking; Haifa, Israel; Mírzá Bádí’u’lláh
    1950 Nov
    195-
    From Switzerland, Shoghi Effendi invited five Bahá'ís—Lotfullah Hakim, Jessie and Ethel Revell, Amelia Collins and Mason Remey—to Haifa. [PP251]
  • They, together with Ben and Gladys Weeden who were already there, were told that they would constitute the International Bahá'í Council. [PP251–2]
  • - Bahá'í World Centre; Amelia Collins; Ben Weeden; Charles Mason Remey; Ethel Revell; Gladys Anderson Weeden; Haifa, Israel; International Bahá'í Council (1951-1963); Jessie Revell; Luṭfu’lláh Ḥakím; Switzerland
    1950 Nov
    195-
    Brian Burland, the first Bermudian to become a Bahá'í, accepted the Faith in Canada. - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Bermuda; Canada first Bermudian Bahá'í
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