Major Tudor Pole
2 stories in the library.
A life in stories
Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957)
The Letter That Changed a Young Man's Life
A young man named Shoghi was studying far from home when sad news arrived — and only later did he learn that a special task had been waiting just for him.
3 min
The Cable in London: Shoghi Effendi Learns of His Appointment
In Rúḥíyyih Khánum's biography *The Priceless Pearl* she describes the moment in November 1921 when a young Shoghi Effendi, reading the cable in Major Tudor Pole's London office, learned that 'Abdu'l-Bahá had passed — and how, only on his return to Haifa, the opening of the Master's Will revealed an office he had never imagined for himself.
2 min