No use of the word “Guardian” in the Proclamation of the hands (November 25, 1957) referred to any future guardian. The word “Guardian” always refers to “the beloved Guardian” (i.e., Shoghi Effendi). That Shoghi Effendi “left no heir” did not necessarily mean nothing could be done to reinstate the guardianship. The infallible UHJ, after election in 1963, could reexamine this question. The document does say, however, that “no successor to Shoghi Effendi could have been appointed,” meaning apparently, as they considered it, that Shoghi Effendi had no valid candidates for appointment, being that he had no son and had declared all known “branches” to be covenant-breakers. The guardianship between 1957 and 1963 was an open question is something that was admitted by Ruhiyyih Khanum in The Ministry of the Custodians pg 16. It is to be noted that Mason Remey’s claim was not based on his being “one of the earliest, famous believers of the West” nor having “been made a Hand of the Cause by Shogh...