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Brussels Conference Helga Zepp-LaRouche Addresses Parliamentarians Against Bosnia Genocide elga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of Sudan, Morocco, Lebanon, Malaysia, Triangle Paris-Berlin-Vienna’ as the Hthe Schiller Institute, spoke in Philippines, Pakistan, Japan, South centerpiece of a Eurasian infrastructure Brussels April 29 to the Conference of Korea, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech program, is based on the fact that this International Parliamentarians Against Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, region, which encompasses parts of Genocide in Bosnia and Hercegovina. and Canada. Also, of course, a large France, Germany, and Central Europe, The conference, held at the European number of European Parliament mem- represents the greatest concentration of Parliament, drew over two hundred bers participated. industrial capacities and highly skilled representatives of parliaments and high- The second panel, on April 29, labor power in the world. level delegations from around the focussed on economic development. world. Chaired by the Hon. Nareo Laroni of Principles of the Triangle The gathering was opened April 28 the European Parliament, it featured “It would have been very simple to by Dr. Egon Alfred Klepsch, president Zepp-LaRouche as a main speaker. apply principles similar to those of the of the European Parliament. Speakers Excerpts from her speech follow: reconstruction of Germany after World on the first panel included the Hon. “An effective peace policy for the War II, to create project-linked credits Stjepan Kljujic, a member of the Bos- Balkans today must fundamentally con- to bring about technological improve- nian presidency; Stipe Mesic, president sist—in addition to pushing the Serbs ment of existing industries and achieve of the Croatian Parliament; and Msgr. back within the borders as they were productive full employment by means Dr. Zelimir Puljic, Roman Catholic before the war broke out—of a program of new investments. Bishop of Dubrovnik, who was sent as a for economic development such as my “The increase in production and representative of Cardinal Kuharic of husband, Lyndon LaRouche proposed productivity, which would have been Zagreb; among others. in November 1989 when the borders of achieved by such dirigistic methods in Delegations came from Bosnia- Europe opened. The central feature of the tradition of Friedrich List, not only Hercegovina, Croatia, Jordan, Egypt, the program of the so-called ‘Productive could have become the motor of the

EIRNS Conference of International Parliamentarians Against Genocide in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Second from right is Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche. 113

© 1994 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. transfer of improved technologies into eastern and southeastern Europe, and Seeds Planted for National ultimately Asia, but it could have become the locomotive for the entire world economy, which was already in Music Conservatory Movement depression at that time. “The Balkans were to be completely he seeds for a “National Conserva- to create in the United States a school of integrated into this Eurasian infrastruc- Ttory of Music Movement” in honor Classical music composition, combining ture program as a bridge to the North- of Marian Anderson were planted in bel canto singing with American east, and, particularly after completion Washington, D.C. by the Schiller Insti- themes, to recreate here the scientific of the Rhine-Main-Danube canal, ship- tute, with a concert on May 27, followed counterpoint of Beethoven and Brahms. ping on the Danube would have taken by an all-day conference on Saturday at As the program for the weekend’s on a crucial function for the economic Howard University’s Rankin Memorial events indicates, the new National Con- development of the states of former Chapel. servatory of Music is proposed—not as a Yugoslavia. The two-hour concert featured four building—but as an idea, whose pur- “There is documentation in great of the nation’s leading African-American pose is to “rid the arts of the rule of detail—not least in the memoirs of Mar- artists performing a unique combination the cultural (and countercultural) garet Thatcher—which demonstrates of African-American Spirituals, German Philistines” through a movement com- that Thatcher and Bush, for political rea- lieder, oratorio, and opera arias at the posed of mass choruses, educated sons, were ready to do everything to pre- “Verdi” or “scientific” pitch of mid- through seminars, concerts, and sym- vent such a development of the Eurasian dle-C = 256 Hz. The conference was posia, “intended in these troubled times continent. Part of the Thatcher-Bush keynoted by Lyndon LaRouche, and to bring back into focus the need to re- policy included giving the Serbs the included several hours of master-class establish the arts as the center of our green light for their Greater Serbia plans vocal coaching by the artists, as well as lives.” of conquest, a policy maintained since discussion of the principles of bel canto Performing works by Handel, Schu- then by Great Britain and the United singing and the effects of the lower, bert, and Verdi, as well as numerous Nations, by which they have made them- “Verdi” pitch on musical performance. Spirituals, were baritone Robert McFer- selves complicit in the Serbian genocide. The first National Conservatory of rin, who in 1955 was the first Black This policy also included imposing shock Music, which is the inspiration for this male artist to perform at the Metropoli- therapy upon the states of the former movement, was conceived and initiated tan Opera; baritone William Warfield, Warsaw Pact, and initially Yugoslavia, one-hundred years ago by Jeanette past president of the National Associa- and today Croatia. Thurber, working with the great Czech tion of Negro Musicians (1985-90); tenor “Instead of developing the East and composer Antonin Dvˇorak, who sought George Shirley, the first Black tenor at the Balkans economically, the policies of shock therapy, International Monetary Fund conditionalities, and the so-called free market economy led to a disastrous collapse of production, so that today pro- ductive capacities have been reduced to levels thirty percent of what they were at the time of the end of communism. This policy has not only led Russia to the brink of economic standstill, it has pro- duced a dictatorship of organized crime and a profound embitterment of the population. Since Russia is, moreover, a nuclear power, this development can quickly explode into a catastrophe. There is only one way that a drift into an apocalyptic crisis can be prevented: the policy which Bush and Thatcher deter- mined in 1989 toward the Balkans and toward Russia must be given up entirely, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis and it must be replaced by a policy of Schiller Institute children’s chorus opens the conference for a “National Conservatory of economic development.” Music Movement.” 114