Joel Marangella’s Proclamation of Nov. 12, 1969 continued with the following: "As time went on Mason Remey assigned increasing responsibilities to me in my capacity as President of the Council. A culmination was reached in the summer of 1965 when I visited him in Florence, Italy, and he instructed me to announce to the Bahá’í World the activation of the second International Bahá’í Council. He left the wording of this announcement to me… Mason Remey’s Proclamation had made it very clear to all of us why Shoghi Effendi had never instructed him during his lifetime to activate the first International Bahá’í Council (created in 1951), for had he done so Mason Remey, as its President (i.e., the head of the Universal House of Justice), would have at that instant automatically become the second Guardian. Upon returning to France where I was residing at the time and reflecting further on how I should phrase the announcement activating the Council, I prepared the statement which appears in the Glad Tidings of October 1965 under the heading of "Council Assumes Task". This statement was forwarded to Mason Remey for approval. A review of this statement will show that I attempted to resolve my dilemma by using such phrases as: "the second International Bahá’í Council (the embryonic Universal House of Justice under the hereditary Guardianship) will not be convened at this time as a collectively functioning body" and "The President will assign responsibilities and tasks to individual members of the Council". However, recalling the circumstances surrounding the creation of the first International Bahá’í Council in 1951, it will be remembered that Shoghi Effendi, himself, had issued all instructions and assigned tasks to individual members of the Council. Therefore, Mason Remey, the embryonic Head of the embryonic Universal House of Justice, remained in this embryonic state destined only to emerge and come into active life as Guardian of the Faith upon the passing of Shoghi Effendi. My situation was different, for it is now apparent that the procedure which I conceived and placed into effect with the aim of circumventing activation of the Council really did not accomplish this purpose at all. For the moment I assumed responsibility for directing members of the Council in the performance of their tasks the Council was actively functioning and activated under its President (its activation not necessarily being contingent upon a collective convocation of its members in a given place)."