@contact: "Susan Maneck has claimed in several of her postings that Shoghi Effendi
presided over meetings of the IBC and for this reason the Council was
activated under his presidency.  I have yet to see any evidence of this or
attestation by persons who were there and would know.
Shoghi Effendi announced in his message of 8 March 1952 that Ruhiyyih Khanum
was the "chosen liaison between me and the Council."   He would not have
appointed her as the liaison and announced it to the Baha'i World if he
presided over the Council himself.
For that matter, he would not have appointed Mason Remey as the president of
that body and announced it to the Baha'i World, only to take over the
Council himself.  He never said that Remey was the president in his stead.
It is also significant that the Council never issued any instructions to its
subordinate National Spiritual Assemblies during the ministry of Shoghi
Effendi as he had clearly projected as a future role for the Council in his
message of 23 November 1951 when he stated that the Council (referred to in
that cablegram as "the Central Body") would be directing these NSA's during
the prosecution of the Ten Year Global Crusade starting in 1953 (which would
obviously take place only after his passing).
Jeffrey"
    @contact: "Thank you for your response BUT I disagree that it is all MOOT because the
Faith belongs to GOD and I believe that He will make everything RIGHT!
Jeffrey
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    @multiman: "Only if they first met with teh Guardian as their president, otherwise
they were not organized in accordance with the immutable and sacred
document the Will and Testament
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