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| 1918 8 Jan |
President Woodrow Wilson in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress outlined his Fourteen Points. It was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
Wilson was influenced by the Bahá’í Teachings in formulating his Fourteen Points, at least three Bahá’í volumes were known to be in the White House. The Hidden Words appears on a 1921 listing of Wilson’s private library. Also, a compilation on peace given the President by a delegation of Washington Bahá’ís ‘turned up in general reference at the Library of Congress marked “transfer from the White House”‘. In addition, Abdul-Baha on Divine Philosophy (Boston, 1918) was said to have much influenced his thinking. [AY155]
Commenting on the Fourteen Points laid down by the President for the world community, the
Master says that twelve of them derive from principles advocated by Bahá’u’lláh fifty years before, and that these Teachings had been spread worldwide through various publications, thus becoming known to leaders in Europe and America (Persian Tablets, vol. III, p. 312). [AY156-157]
US Office of the Historian.
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United States; Washington DC |
Woodrow Wilson; Fourteen Points; History (general); Principles; Abdul-Baha, Writings and talks of; Abdul-Baha on Divine Philosophy; Peace; World peace (general); World War I; War (general); United States, Presidents |
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| 1954 26 Apr |
President of Israel Ben Zvi and his wife visit the Shrines on Mount Carmel, the first official visit paid by a head of a sovereign state to the Shrines of the Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. [GBF139–140; MBW68; PP2923] |
Haifa; Mount Carmel |
Ben Zvi; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Bab, Shrine of; Firsts, Other |
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| 1954 26 May |
Shoghi Effendi, Rúhíyyih Khánum and Leroy Ioas returned the visit of President Ben Zvi by visiting him in Jerusalem. [GBF140; PP293–4] |
Jerusalem; Israel |
Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Amatul-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum; Leroy Ioas; Ben Zvi; Presidents |
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| 1962 28 Jun |
President Tubman of Liberia visited the Shrine of the Báb.
This is the second official visit of a head of state (but the first foreign head of state) and is notable in that Liberia is the first black republic on the continent of Africa. [BW13:400]
See BW13:400 for picture. |
Haifa; Mount Carmel; Liberia |
Bab, Shrine of; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Firsts, Other |
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| 1984 21 Oct |
His Excellency Chaim Herzog, President of the State of Israel, pays an official visit to the Bahá’í World Centre at the invitation of the Universal House of Justice. [BW19:377; VV88]
This is the first visit by a head of state to the Seat of the House of Justice. [VV88] |
Haifa; BWC; Israel |
Chaim Herzog; Presidents; Prominent visitors |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, visited the Bahá'í World Centre. [BW94–5:83] |
Marshall Islands; Oceania; BWC |
Amata Kabua; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Islands |
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| 2003 18 Mar |
The President of India, Abdul Kalam, visited the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, the first official visit there by an Indian Head of State since the Temple was opened in December 1986. [BWNS204] |
New Delhi; India |
Abdul Kalam; Mashriqul-Adhkar, Delhi; Lotus temple; Prominent visitors; Presidents; Firsts, Other; BWNS |
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| 2010 30 Apr |
The visit of the President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese, to the World Centre. [BWNS774] |
BWC; Ireland; Haifa |
Presidents; Prominent visitors; Mary McAleese; BWNS |
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| 2011 1 Dec |
The head of state of the Republic of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong, paid an official visit to the Bahá'í World Centre. [BWNS870] |
BWC; Palau |
Presidents; Prominent visitors; Johnson Toribiong; Islands; BWNS |
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- Arches of the Years, by Marzieh Gail (1991). Early days of the Bahá'í Faith in America and of Abdu'l-Bahá's visit in 1912; Phoebe Hearst; Versailles Conference; and about Marzieh Gail herself. [about]
- Letters to and from US Presidential Archives (1984). A collection of correspondence circa 1984 from and to archivist David Piff concerning Bahá'í-related holdings. Also included is some correspondence between offices of the presidents and the US National Spiritual Assembly and the BIC. [about]
- President Wilson and the Bahá'í Connection, by Paul Pearsall, in Herald of the South (1988). Short overview of myths and facts on the Wilson-Bahá'í connection. Includes addenda on the League of Nations, by Vincent Littrell, and on the Fourteen Points, by Bahram Nadini. [about]
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