he went to his beloved Switzerland

At this period, the Guardian confronted dark crises of Covenant-breaking within ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s own family. During May’s pilgrimage, one of these crises occurred. Shoghi Effendi, a singularly confiding soul with people he trusted, called May [Maxwell] and her daughter to his bedroom, where he lay prostrated by nerves and grief, and told them he could not stand it, he was going away. He went to his beloved Switzerland where he hiked and bicycled over the Alps from dawn till nightfall, day after day for weeks at a time, trying to heal himself of the pain of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s death, seeking strength for his strenuous tasks as the shield and defender of his Faith.

(A Love Which Does Not Wait, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen, p 57 – 58)