^4. This writer never received a letter from the European Hands who appointed him as one of their Auxiliary Board members advising him that he had been removed because of his acceptance of Mason Remey as the second Guardian.

^5. As this NSA had been illicitly formed after the dissolution of the former legitimately established NSA of France by the Hand of the Cause Faizi who had lacked such authority to do so based on the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, it had no authority of any kind much less the authority to deprive these five members of the legitimate NSA of their voting rights. As for their expulsion from the Faith, a perverted definition of loyalty to the Covenant would have to be fabricated, as discussed previously, to warrant this action by the Hands.