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110 then I would have been over 73, and would almost certainly have left the United Nations. But Mr. Ali Sastroamidjoyo was not avail- able in 1962. Even so at my suggestion it was agreed that the Latins should have the Presidency in 1962 and an Asian could be President in 1963. Ambassador Amadeo (Argentina) was the choice of the Latins but in consequence of a revolution in his home country he resigned from his office in the United Nations and I was pushed into the Presidency of the General Assembly in 1962. By Allah’s grace, the Presidency was so well run that it earned me a large measure of goodwill, so that somewhat late in 1963 I decided to run for a seat on the International Court in the triennial elections. Mr. Fouad Ammoun, Foreign Minister of Lebanon, who was also a candidate, had already secured the support of a major- ity of the members of the Security Council and of the General Assembly which made his election certain and mine unlikely. Yet I was elected and he was not. This opened the way to my election as President of the Court in 1970 at seventy-seven years of age. Thus was ’s dream of thirty-six years earlier completely ful- filled, praise be to Allah. Not only did I become President of the highest court of the world, but thereby I became the only person so far who had combined in himself the Presidency both of the General Assembly of the United Nations and of the International Court of Justice. That distinction I still hold. The extraordinary manner of the fulfilment of ’s dream is positive proof of the Existence of God, of the possi- bility of establishing a relationship with Him, and of the verity that He speaks today as He spoke of yore. It is also proof that her other dreams—whereby she was guided to the acceptance of Ahmadiyyat—were also true.