A Silence in the War-Time Diaries
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Looking back on the years of the Second World War, Rúḥíyyih Khánum, the wife of Shoghi Effendi, wrote:
In reading over my diaries - so very little of which I have quoted out of hundred of pages written off and on throughout the years - it seems strange to me there is practically no reference to the World War raging everywhere during almost six years and constituting such a dire threat to the safety of the World Centre of the Faith and particularly to the Guardian himself as Head of that Faith. Nothing could more eloquently testify to the internal upheavals he was going through during all those years than this blank. The day-to-day pressures and the work, worry and mental exhaustion were so great that it crowded mention of this constant threat and anxiety into the background.
Source: Rúḥíyyih Khánum, The Priceless Pearl, ch. 9 “War”, p. 177.
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