Proclaim National Assemblies of East and West weighty epoch-making decision of formation of first International Bahá'í Council, forerunner of supreme administrative institution destined to emerge in fullness of time within precincts beneath shadow of World Spiritual Center of Faith already established in twin cities of 'Akká and Haifa....

Some goals were:
  - To offer Rs 2,500,000 to the Shrine of the Báb Fund
  - To enrich Bahá'í literature in local languages
  - To send pioneers to Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Vietnam, Zanzibar and Madagascar
  - To increase the number of Local Spiritual Assemblies in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  - To enhance the status of the Bahá'í New Era School in Panchgani

Some goals were:
  - To strengthen the nineteen Spiritual Assemblies already established in the British Isles
  - To form nuclei in three dependencies of the British Crown in East or West Africa
  - To translate, publish and disseminate Bahá'í literature in three additional African languages

On the success of this enterprise, unprecedented in its scope, unique in its character and immense in its spiritual potentialities, must depend the initiation, at a later period in the Formative Age of the Faith, of undertakings embracing within their range all National Assemblies functioning throughout the Bahá'í world—undertakings constituting in themselves a prelude to the launching of worldwide enterprises destined to be embarked upon, in future epochs of that same Age, by the Universal House of Justice, that will symbolize the unity and coordinate and unify the activities of these National Assemblies. [UD261; 9 March 1965]

Shoghi Effendi had given Canada the goal of opening Greenland, a seemingly impossible task because it was a closed country in which no one could enter with obtaining permission from the Danish government. See BW20p803-804 for John Robarts role in opening the path for Palle Bischoff.