the Bahá’i teachings with “every educator in Switzerland“, and who was one of the most intelligent, kind and just humanitarians she had ever come across. Defence of the Bahá’í Faith The founding of the Pahlavi dynasty by Reza Shah in Persia in 1925 gave rise to an outburst of persecutions against the Bahá’í community. When Forel became aware of these persecutions through communication from Shoghi Effendi he took immediate action by bringing the situation to the attention of the European public. As early as the first week of April 1925 Forel sent a letter to Édouard Herriot - French President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, giving details of the atrocities being perpetrated and requesting the European press and governments to do all in their power to stop them, "or at least to limit them as much as possible". Forel followed this letter by writing to the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna with the title, "A Persecuted Religion: Islamic cruelties against the Bahá’ís", and a few days following publication Forel received a letter from J. E. Esslemont on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, thanking him for the article and asking if it might be possible to arrange for it to be published in additional newspapers. Shortly after a Turkish translation appeared in a "progressive Istanbul newspaper", Shoghi Effendi sent a cable to Forel, expressing his delight at the article in the Viennese journal and commenting that it had achieved "notable result". When persecution increased a year later, Forel wrote an article to the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, which he also sent to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations accompanied by a personal message. However, the response wasn't encouraging, pointing out that the League of Nations was only able to undertake such action if a state, or country, had accepted an international agreement concerning the protection of minorities, which Persia had not. On 27 April 1927 Shoghi Effendi sent a message to the Bahá’í's of the west, informing them of the recent martyrdom of yet another Bahá’í in Persia. A copy of the message was included in a letter sent by Shoghi Effendi to Forel, asking him to share this latest development with newspapers in Germany and Switzerland. According to his notes on the letter, Forel duly sent the news to various publications, including the Austrian daily newspaper, Neues Wiener Abendblatt on 10 June 1927 under the title