Cable:
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His Holiness 'Abdu'l-Baha ascended Abha Kingdom. Inform friends.
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Upon reading the cable Shoghi Effendi collapsed. Major Tudor Pole, in whose office Shoghi Effendi read the cable while he wasn’t there, upon his return found him, in a “state of collapse, dazed and bewildered by this catastrophic news.” He was taken to the home of Miss Grand, one of the London believers, and put to bed there for a few days. (Adapted from ‘The Guardian of the Baha’i Faith’, by Ruhiyyih Rabbani, p. 13)