July 1920 Shoghi Effendi arrived in Britain with tablets from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Lord Lamington and Pole, though we do not have a statement what they were about. He delivered them at a reception held for his arrival. He also consulted with Pole for places to vacation to obey a request of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá during the early days of his education at Oxford. In his visions Pole believed a new war footing of tension was rising up and cutting people off from the higher worlds especially in the strife in Ireland and Russia, a drawing of inspiration of racial consciousness meant to become wider but failing, and the flow of spiritual awakening was now misdirected and then was cut off in spring 1920: for him examples of this were how things were going with President Wilson, the League of Nations, the Versailles Treaty, the Russian Revolution, and the like all resulting in a halt of the fortunes of the "second coming", the dissipation of the envisioned spiritual resources and then they being halted.