is greek an international  language ?

Remarks by
the Hon. Xenophon Zolotas,
Governor of the Bank of Greece and Governor of the Fund for Greece,
at the closing Joint Sessions of the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development International Monetary Fund

The Internationality
of the Greek Language

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 I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek,
   but I realised 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
   With your permission, Mr Chairman,
   I shall do it now, using with the exception
   of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.

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Kyrie !

I eulogise the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms methods and policies, although thereis an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

Withenthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organisations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analysed and synthesised.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic 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 parallel a panethnic un-hypocritical economic synergy and harmonisation in a democratic climate is basic.

I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasise my eucharistia to you, Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organisers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.

September 26, 1957

Kyrie !

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our
economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies
that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora
and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not in my idiosyncrasy to be ironic and sarcastic but my
diagnosis would be that politicians are rather crypto-plethorists.
Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic 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 metron between
economic, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic
has always been anti-economic.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies,
monopsonies, 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.

Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize 
economic acme.

A greater antagonization between the practices of the economic
andnumismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and
more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.

These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of
the political andeconomical barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didymous Organizations in this sphere has
been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonicto
the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The
genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these
polities. Therefore, I sympathize, although not withoutcriticism
organizations in their zeal to program orthodox economic and
numismatic polities.

I apologise for having tyrannised you with my Hellenic phraseology.

In my epilogue,I emphasise my eulogy to the philoxenous
autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to
you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.

October 2, 1959