478-5-4

On the collapse of the Friends of Freedom for India, see the Roger Baldwin papers, as well as F.F.I, collection correspondence.

478-5-3

Arun C. Guha, First Spark of Revolution (n.p., 1971), pp. 499-514; Muzaffar Ahmad, Communist Party of India and Its Formation Abroad (Calcutta, 1961), p. 112; M.N. Roy, Memoirs, pp. 477-85; G. Adhikari, ed., Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India (New Delhi, 1971), vol. 1, pp. 81-82, 85-89, 250-61, is the best analysis to date of this complex meeting in Moscow.

478-5-2

Chatto had already traveled to Moscow in November of 1920 to win agreement for such a meeting. Final details and financing were worked out in Berlin by the Comintern's representative, Michael Borodin, early in March of 1921. Smedley, of course, had come to Berlin from New York explicitly to represent the Indian movement in the United States at the Moscow summit.

478-4-31

F.F.I, collection, correspondence, 1920: Smedley to San Francisco office F.F.I., August 5, 17, and undated (Autumn); Call, August 16, 1920.

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