The Guardian dies in England of Asian flu
Although provisions permitted successive Guardians, Shoghi Effendi had not appointed one (no living direct descendants of Baha'u'llah were faithful to His Covenant). The Guardian had indicated that at the completion of the Crusade, conditions were ripe for the election of the Universal House of Justice. The Hands of the Cause of God, collaborating with the national spiritual assemblies, worked to complete the goals of the Ten Year World Crusade