ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝ ΖΟΛΩΤΑΣ: Οι ιστορικοί του λόγοι

Ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός και καθηγητής  Ξενοφών Ζολώτας είχε εκφωνήσει δύο λόγους στην Ουάσιγκτον (στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 1957 και στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959), οι οποίοι έμειναν μνημειώδεις. Αιτία ως προς αυτό δεν ήταν μόνο το περιεχόμενό τους αλλά και η γλώσσα τους. Υποτίθεται ότι η γλώσσα των λόγων ήταν η αγγλική. Κατ' ουσίαν όμως, με την αφαίρεση λίγων συνδέσμων, άρθρων και προθέσεων η γλώσσα είναι η Ελληνική. Το ακροατήριό του αποτελούσαν οι σύνεδροι της Διεθνούς Τράπεζας Ανασυγκρότησης και Ανάπτυξης και δεν αντιμετώπισαν τότε κανένα πρόβλημα στην κατανόηση τού προφορικού κειμένου που ανέγνωσε ο Έλληνας καθηγητής. Εκείνο τον καιρό, κατείχε την θέση τού διευθυντή Τραπέζης Ελλάδος και διαχειριστή του ελληνικού Δημοσίου Χρέους. Ακολουθεί ο λόγος της 26/9/1957:


"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, l shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.

"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 enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. 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 unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic arid generous American Ethnos and to the organizes and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia".

Δύο χρόνια αργότερα, το 1959, ο Ξ. Ζολώτας έδωσε μία άλλη ελληνοαγγλική ομιλία, ζητώντας να τον ακούσουν με προσοχή, ακόμα κι αν υπήρχε ο κίνδυνος να κουράσει τους ακροατές του. Ιδού ο λόγος και η ελληνική του "μεταγραφή":

Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch (for the dynamism of our economies) 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.  Political magic has always been anti-economic. 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 and 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, although I have some logomachy with them.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 stenographers.

 

Στο παρελθόν, ο Ξ. Ζολώτας είχε εκφωνήσει και έναν ελληνογαλλικό λόγο.
Le Dedale Synchrone Du Cosmos Politique 

Kyrie, Sans apostropher ma rhetorique dans l’ emphase et la plethore, j’ analyserai elliptiquement, sans nul gallicisme, le dedale synchrone du cosmos politique caracterise par des syndromes de crise paralysant l’ organisation systematique de notre economie. Nous sommes periodiquement sceptiques et neurastheniques devant ces paroxysmes periphrasiques, cette boulimie des demagogues, ces hyperboles, ces paradoxes hypocrites et cyniques qui symbolisent une democratie anachronique et chaotique. Les phenomenes fantastiques qu’on nous prophetise pour l’ epoque astronomique detroneront les programmes rachitiques, hybrides et sporadiques de notre cycle atomique. Seule une panacee authentique et draconienne metamorphosera cette agonie prodrome de l’ apocalypse et une genese homologue du Phenix. Les economistes technocrates seront les strateges d’ un theatre polemique et dynamique et non les proselytes du marasme. Autochtones helleniques, dans une apologie cathartique, psalmodions les theoremes de la democratie thesaurisante et heroique, soyons allergiques aux parasites allogenes dont les sophismes trop hyalins n’ ont qu’une pseudodialectique. En epilogue a ces agapes, mon amphore a l’ apogee, je prophetise toute euphorie et apotheose a Monsieur Giscard d’ Estaing, prototype enthousiasmant de la neo-orthodoxie economique et symbole de la palingenesie de son ethnie gallique. 
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