Or, another theory - to save Stalin.
Stalin got far more Lend-Lease aid than England or China - for example, tens of tons of nuclear materials were sent in 1943 (the Trinity Test took place in 1945).
But then, Harry (the Hop) Hopkins was Soviet agent 19 )known from the Venona Project decrypts).
Possible! Did you read DAY OF DECEIT? Stinnett details FDR's plan to bring the American public opinion around to war. There are those that say FDR and Churchill riged the sinking of the Luisitania to bring American public opinion around to war in 1916. Much was to be gained by England and the USofA winning rather than losing wars.