For more than a year a Free Japan Committee, organized along the lines of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, has been active in Yenan. The official name of the committee is the Japanese People's Liberation Alliance. Wrote brilliant Biographer Boris J. Nicolaevsky (Aseff the Spy) in Manhattan's socialist New Leader:
"Whether or not Russia declares war against Japan, Stalin certainly intends to share in the spoils of victory. For this purpose he tries to enlist . . . Japanese forces which can be set in motion at the propitious moment. . . . The Free Japan movement officially dates back to...