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Historical Speech of Xenophon Zolotas

The Historical Archive of the Bank of Greece includes rare documents and historical speeches of the Governor and Prime Minister of Greece Xenophontos Zolotas, like the ones he had given in Washington in 1957 and 1959, with the text being in English but with words derived from the Greek language.

Το Ιστορικό Αρχείο της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος περιλαμβάνει σπάνια έγγραφα και ιστορικές ομιλίες του Διοικητή και Πρωθυπουργού της Ελλάδας Ξενοφώντος Ζολώτα, όπως αυτές που είχε δώσει στην Ουάσινγκτον το 1957 και το 1959, με το κείμενο να είναι στα αγγλικά αλλά με λέξεις που προέρχονται από την Ελληνική γλώσσα.

Xenophon Zolotas during his speech to the World Bank Assembly wrote:

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Kyrie,

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological, but this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.

Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and nomismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political end economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didimus organization on this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies.

Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and nomismatic policies.

I apologize for having tyranized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous aytochtons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you Kyrie, the stenographers.

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