AFRO-ASIA MISHMASH AT MOSHI IT WAS BILLED AS THE THIRD AFRO-ASIAN PEOPLE'S 
SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE . BUT DISCORD TURNED OUT TO BE SOLIDARITY'S DOMINANT 
THEME WHEN THE 400 DELEGATES AND OBSERVERS GATHERED AT MOSHI, A 
HAMLET ON THE COFFEE SLOPES OF MOUNT KILIMANJARO . SETTING THE 
TONE OF THE AFFAIR WAS RELUCTANT HOST JULIUS NYERERE, PRESIDENT OF 
TANGANYIKA, WHO HAD NOT WANTED THE MEETING HELD IN HIS COUNTRY 
IN THE FIRST PLACE . TO THE COMMUNISTS AND THEIR PALS, 
HE WARNED THAT AFRICA AND ASIA ARE IMPERILED BY A " 
SECOND SCRAMBLE " OF COLONIZATION, LED THIS TIME BY COMMUNIST POWERS, 
" WHO ARE COMMITTING THE SAME CRIME AS THE CAPITALISTS BEFORE 
. " SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THE HEAD OF THE INDIAN DELEGATION DENOUNCED 
THE ORGANIZATION AS A " FRAUD, / STOMPED OUT OF THE 
HALL BECAUSE HIS NEUTRALIST RESOLUTION ON THE SINO-INDIAN DISPUTE WAS TORPEDOED 
. DURING A DEBATE ON MALAYSIA, THE DELEGATE FROM SINGAPORE WAS 
BARRED, AND AN INDONESIAN WAS ACCEPTED AS BRUNEI'S REPRESENTATIVE . THE 
RUSSIANS AND RED CHINESE DELEGATIONS CARRIED THEIR OWN SQUABBLE INTO AFRICA 
. THERE WERE WIDESPREAD SUSPICIONS THAT THE CHINESE WERE TO BLAME 
WHEN THE AMPLIFIER FOR THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION HOOKUP DISAPPEARED, WAS LATER 
FOUND IN A DITCH OUTSIDE THE CONFERENCE HALL . TIT FOLLOWED 
TAT . NEXT DAY THE CHINESE EARPHONES WENT DEAD, AND A 
BRITISH ENGINEER SUMMONED TO FIX THEM FOUND THAT THE ELECTRICAL CONNECTION 
HAD BEEN SPIKED . 