I recently read in "Battles Lost And Won" by Hanson W.Baldwin that before the Battle of Leyte Gulf :

"The Soviet Foriegn Office informed the Ambassador from Japan,represenative of their "ally's enemy," that through diplomatic sources they had learned that the U.S. Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Air Forces,then China-based, had been ordered to make attacks intended to isolate the Phillipines. The U.S. assualt on Leyte came sooner then the Japanese had expected but about where they expected it."

Has anyone else heard of this? I know that The U.S.S.R. planned on attacking Japan after the war in Europe was over and was at that time not at war with Japan. But is this what an "ALLY" is supposed to do?
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