November 18

The House of Justice instructs us to say in reply to Mr. ...’s letter to the Local Spiritual Assembly of... that he should be advised that the time has not yet come for the Universal House of Justice to take any such step as he suggests. There is no doubt of the vital importance of the establishment of a universal language and it will inevitably come about but the believers have more urgent matters to attend to at the present and are asked to concentrate on teaching the Cause and winning the goals of the Five Year Plan. 

- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated 2 March 1976 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly; compilation: The Principles of an International Auxiliary Language’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice’, 2002)