HISTORIC SPEECHES OF XENOPHON ZOLOTAS

                          IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Professor Xenophon Zolotas ( who was also a short-term minister of Greece ) made two speeches in Washington, USA

that remained in HISTORY because of their content and their

language. The language- apart from conjunctions, articles and

prepositions- was Greek, but the english-speaking audience had

no trouble understanding Zolotas' speech.

  1957 Annual Meeting, Boards of Governors, Washington D.C.

At that time Professor Zolotas was the President of the Bank of

Greece and he was managing the National financial Obligation.

                          Addressing  his  audience

"  I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized

    that it would have been indeed  "Greek" to all present in this

   room.  I found out , however, that I could make my address in

   Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your

   permission Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the 

   exception of aricles and prepositions, only  Greek words."

                                 THE SPEECH

 " Kyrie, 

    I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus

    and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms

    methods and policies, although there is an episode of 

    cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.  With entusiasm we 

    dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Orga-

    nizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas

    are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the

    nomismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy.

    This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my

    thesis we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices

    as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe.

    In parallet a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and

    harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. 

    

   I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucha-

   ristiria to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American

   Ethnos and to the organizations and protagonists of the

   Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia."

 This speech is the first one Professor Zolotas gave in Washington

 Two years later in 1959, he returned and gave another speech.

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EVI MARTYN//  Founder 

                            HELLENIC CULTURE ADVOCACY