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Many Countries Were Represented at the Eighteenth Annual Session of the Lake Mohonk Conference

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Many Countries Were Represented at the Eighteenth Annual Session of the Lake Mohonk Conference
The Hawaiian Star
June 3, 1912
Lake Mohonk, NY

[picture caption: COPYRIGHT 1912 BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION]

LAKE MOHONK, N. Y., May 17. — The attendance at the eighteenth annual session of the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration was international in character and included representatives from Switzerland, Persia, Germany, Canada, Norway and the United States, all interested in the furtherance of peace between nations. The delegates from Persia were (1) E. C. Getsinger, (2) Mrs. Getsinger, (3) Valiyu’llah Varqa, (4) Amin Fareed, (5) Ahmad Sohrab, (6) ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, (7) Siyyid Asadu’llah. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is the head of a new “religion of peace.”