1959-03-20 — Page 4

SATCHMO SEES RED

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By Douglas Enefer

BASS rumble stirred somewhere in the

depths of Mr Daniel Louis Armstrong. It

was as if a benevolent volcano were about to erupt..

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I had required him to state the rearons why he was !! the happiest married man in show business.

The biggest leeth in the world shone from. the biggest mouth in the world. The celebrated golf ball eyes shone, too.

"Lucille lover me fight, sy wo stay happy all the time. Diddy,” growled the King of Jazz in the loved voice, which sounds He gravel sifted through uinckstrap molasses.

I should explain that it is Mr Armstrong's engaging habit to address anybody he 10006 22: Daddy. lie has small trouble with numes, anyway.

His

Fitness

signed and no communication of any kind is made to the great man himself.

Everything is handled through his manager, mentor and major tough-looking New doma Yorker named Joe Glaser, who has been described as know- ledgeable but not innocent..

fake

As of now moves are in train which may take Louis and the orchestra io Moscow-not, is he ways, that he wishes to over the jobs of Messrs Harold Macmillan and John Foster Dulles.

"I Just play that music and you don't need no words to understand that," he pro- nounced.

It was Inter when a man with Drain book came into the roomt and wished to know why, in mid-how at the Leeds Odeon that night, Mr Armstrong had played a number of commer- clal pop sengs instead of jazz strnduids.

He hitched his pants way up shining Eric-brown calves, peering at mis with a face which looks at though it has been carved from the living rock.

"Sump'n else. Daddy--that old trumpet of miny is what I live with and by. Can't take that Away from me. That's why I'm happy with Lucille. She can live with me and that trumpet, too,"

From behind his tuck rimmed glasses shot a beam of such powerful loving that it clearly would have no trouble at all reaching Mrs-Armstrong 200 miles away in London.

We were meeting In Leeds on the frst night of a tour he was muking of British pro- vincial cities.

There wa: a stunned slionce as of the calm before the storm. For the first time in all the years I have known him, I was seeing Louis nected,

"Writers they put down this

hstuff #boul musle, big, words trying to make sump'n ( special out of it when all play lg musle - just music,"

undered.

His Genius

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he

He swing sideways 10 me behind finger beautifully manicured by, Mrs. Aimsirong. "Commercial - what they all mean by commercia), Daddy? his fifty-ninth They As he nears

mean we get paid for birthday Mr Armstrong ap playing? All right, I love to pears to combine the physical play but we expect to be paid, finegy

all-in wrestler him?" of an with the uninhibitex] CX- uberance of an undergraduate on Boat Race Night.

His Mentor

·

Kny

In your

"Heart

He attributes his inexhaus- te well-being to getting.pro- per rest, swallowing herbs three timry day and chewing bls- muth Tablets.

"If you got Not that there is anything suavely acadeinle about the stomach that's it-It's a killer," King Bou in

and old Mr Armstrong. speech

cuble, rheumatism, ali that writing he is addicted to 2 worl of glorious

stuff. I'm telling you it's the gas illiteracy punctuated by odd interjections that starts it all." and incomplete sentences.

He is at some pains to sug- cest to you that he is slyly cun- Ring about money, yet he seems to move about the world in what can only be described as state of knowledgeable inno- cence.

Booking Mr Armstrong. and his All-Stars for a tour is like

earth. No contracts are ever

He tapped my arm. "But then herbs and wales -- why,

gesser," he old. uey're a

the preelse meaning

opposite Tee the word is a jazzman's absolutely and superbly good. way of saying something is

Which reminds me to en- nounce, for all who may wish to know, what I think of Mr Armstrong's playing.

It's a gasser...

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[WE THOUGHT}

OURS WERE WHITE

'TILL WE SAW.

B PLATOONS

“Good morning, 'Disillusioned Conscript.' I see your letter complaining about doing my wife's washing was read out in the Commons yesterday."

London Express Service.

Delmer talks to Khrushchev's

Berlin Trigger-man

THE FIRST

QUESTION: Do you think West

Berlin worth the risk of world war?

WITH time running out, and neither East nor West in a compromising mood over Berlin, the fate of this divided city looms as the most vital issue of our day. To get a unique insight into the Communists' altitude at first hand, the China Mail has secured the following interview with the Communist leader of East Germany, Waller Ulbricht, cabled from Berlin:----

by SEFTON DELMER

Delmer and Ulbricht

said:

asked "How would you He Why? Because, according to

"The German Ulbricht, "West German mill- ensure compliance by, West Democratic Republic has recog tarism has to be crushed now Germany with. such a treaty nised the Oder-Neisse line as a before it gets any stronger." without interfering in her Inter- frontier of peace."

What about Mr Macmillan's nol sffairs?"

He was most emphatic that be would- not West Germany allowed any special priviléges in West Berlin much as it enjoys

proposals for

step-by-step a

sengagement - a thinning Frontiers

out as the Germans coll 1-

of the military bases, installà- For non-interference in each today, tions, and foreign troops in the

Herr Ulbricht said: "At pre- other's affairs is one of the rent certain authorities in West opposing camps?

main proposals Herr Ulbricht Herr Ulbricht is more than ready to welcome this, "Cer makes for the peace settlement Berlin are behaving in a very

wipeaceful way." Ulbricht: "It would be

He

to referring the tainly," he says. "If a gendual enough if the West Germans thinning out could be arranged and the Western Powers agree which are operating from West esplcnage and cabotage groups at Summit conference, that to the insertion of this candi- would be real progress."

'No Nazis'

to use forec against the tion of foreign

was

tion in the perce settlement. The Berlin against East Germany. rest would be up to the German people."

In my search for further 1 asked points of conciliation

A treaty

TO Herr Walter Ulbricht, the Communist leader cupy West Berlin today, 14 years

of East Germany, I put the question which Mr after the war ended."

"And it will demonstrate to Herr Ulbricht adds: **To- Herr Ulbricht whether fie would Herr Ulbricht continued: "We Dulles put to West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer all the world, and Dr Adenauer gether with the

withdrawal of welcome it as a major contri- don't do anything now because a few weeks ago: "Do you think West Berlin is in particular, that any attempt foreign troops and the liquidu- bution to the easing of present we don't want any conflet, but bases--all fald tensions were we and the other no one should imagine that our worth the risk of a third world war?"

German Democratic Republic- down in a peace rettlement Western Powers lo recognise the patience is eternal." fon indirect referrence to that would make of the two allegedly provisional Eastern. DELMER;" "It your patience According to my information, the importance of his declara- reported Western intentions to Germanys a very ne nuclcus frontiers of Germany as per should now be exhausted, would Dr Adenajer replied that he tion.

force a way, to West Berlin for G thinned out, weapon monent,

the form that this exhaustion did NOT think Berlin worth As I was

ushered into the with armed convoys)-"will be free zone. of disengagement." He said: "It wou'd almost cer- takes be the conclusion of the risk of a new world war.

with the room where, he was waiting for met with the full right of the But disengagement,' he In tainly help considerably if Bri- peace treaty But Mr Dulles, the US. m at the end of his T-shaped Soviet

The slate, is not

enough by Reclf. tain and other Western Powers Union, or are you thinking of Secretary of Stale, d'd not table, I faced TV and newarcel States of the Socialist carap." He demands that with it must would clearly discoclate them something more drastic?" agree. In cdd contradiction camerns and radio tape record- Here you have it. If the go the paychological one selves from the revenge - lust ULBRICHT: "What we want to his Suez doctrine he said: trs, plus a bevy of stenograph- West does not agree to a peace political disarmament of newly claims of the West German is a pence 'treaty." "A Great Power cannot afford ers, security mín, and a trio of reititment, Ulbricht and the remilitarised West Germany. to withdraw from a strategic Central Committee officials. position.

When I put the.

Herr Ulbricht 2 thought for

question to

Urgency

Over it all

Union and all

occupation forces to seram from

militarists.

Soviet

We shid:

Frey

He got up from his chair. Tho Russions will make one of "That," he says, "is why, the "The Oder-Neisse frontier tre lights dimmed. their own and tell the Western draft peace treaty we have with Poland was agreed between "Auf wiedersehen!"

forward stipulates that the representatives of Great Bri

A few minutes later I had - Ormans must be pledged to a and the Scarlet Union", menyed hack from the second that the war was break-

Any attempt to Bo through to ban any revival of the Herr, Ulbricht paused for his uniformity of Communist East ing out there and then as hia

I could hear the Berlin into brilliant neon-lighted Party or next words or by air without National Socialist and throughout "by road

Ulbricht and any orgardsations preaching whirr of the cameras, in storm of contempt swept over our u.lk there layed the hot permission from

the West Berlin. hush "orange" glow of King-light-his-men_mcops world wit

Herr Ulbricht spoke, with

of his

He snapped: There is no International dispute whatever which can be solved by a third the dialectic lucidity world war. All questions, even speech in strange contrast to his the most complicated ones, can and must be solved by way of negotiation:

Flashpoint

thick Saxon dialect, I teard much that was reassuring about the need for Summit conterences, negotiations, and peace settle ments.

I was ready to leave It at But his overriding emphasis that. But, Herr Ulbricht was on urgency. He was im- rushed on: "Prople who play patient for decisions, around with lachs of war-like

Why

this

this Herr Willy Brandt, for Ulbricht put it to me with bril- urgency? Herr instance, the mayor of West lant clarity.

Berlin-should be put in sirait-

Jackets and left, lò, cool ofT."

"AdenBUCT

14 playing for

He glared at me fiercely time. Time to complète his through his glinting rimless rearmament, his programme to spectacles. Thon

equip the German Army with A warm,

that humorous smile broke through nuclear weapons

tho

above that aggressive-looking whole balance of power will be goatee beard' of his as though changed in Germany's favour. Lo any: "Cheer up, I don't mean "We really cannot permit him YOU are a warmonger who 10 carry on so

should be straitjacketed."

that at some future date, when it suits him,

It is my job to meet and re- he will stage a provocation to port on the people in all parts war.

of the world, whose views, Tint is why we must tame decisions, and actions can affect West German militarism now." your lives and mine,

But I do not think I have

ever had"""' more important meeting than this one with

..

Threat

Horr Ulbrichit 'in` the "pancliod How do you propose to do Cabinet room” of. his party's this? I asked. Herr Ulbricht Contral Committee in East replici "By a German pence Berlin, 377 A

settlement, preferably ona ijat. This frighteningir austere includes as signatories both and fanatical-looking( 65-year- German States and ult the old Communist is, the, man. Powers that took part in the trusted by Krushchev to enter Second World War, out hala polis

But If that proves impos- And in that polley a war, and; sible, we shell go it along and peace are at stake in this city conclude a peace with the Boy of Berlin, the world's most viet Union N expicsive, dashpoint. That will put an end to the.

Herr: Ulbricht made it abun-occupation statute by virtue of dantly cleat, that he appreciated, which Western troops UL,00%)

-(London Express Service).

THE WARRIOR RETURNS

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