HRH PRINCE TOMISLAV The Keynote speaker, HRH Prince Tomislav addressed the convention. Excerpts from his speech are summarized below. "Love starts with your parents. That love is one of the most important things in your lives. I have that love for the whole of my family and all members of the Karadjordjevich's. The second love is a love when you get married to your wife. There is a third love, for which I am very much attached to, and that is the love for my people... ...Quite often, when we had to go to the front, I had to bring my own security. Not because I was frightened, but because of some so called colonels, who were sent down from Serbia. I had more fear from them, than from the enemy. I spoke to lots of these people at the front line, because I wanted to know what the truth was. You get politicians going around saying "we want peace in Serbia," but do they really want peace? But by talking to these young fighters, they said "we are just praying for peace so that we can return back to our homes; we are just defending our lands like what we did at the battle of Kosovo."... We are defending Christianity, and that is what we are doing right now - we are defending Christianity and our homes. I must thank and congratulate Dr. Biljana Plavsic in winning her position as the President of Republika Srpska. She is the most charming woman. She is the person with the big heart. After these elections, there is a straw of hope. Please grab that straw of hope, because it is the right straw. We do not want only financial help. We need you to unite, all Serbian organizations, because we need your spirit and your strength, your unity. This is what we need. I wish to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the Serbian Unity Congress, for the dialogue you are having now with all the representatives in the Washington. Through dialogue you can do an awful lot and change the minds of many people who are trying to run the world. They never will run the world. And no one is going to run Yugoslavia and Serbia. We are going to do it ourselves. We have to return back to our roots, to our traditions. No other country has got the traditions, the cultures, the history like we have got. If we don't go back to them, we have no future." 7th Convention, HRH Prince Tomislav's speech Copyright © 1996 Serbian Unity Congress All Rights Reserved.