India, Jan. 24 -- When Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death in an air crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, was announced, the British Government suspected that this was a cover for his escape to the Soviet Union. Their suspicions were confirmed a few months later when transmitters in Calcutta's Governor's House caught three broadcasts on shortwave band 31 by Netaji between December 26, 1945, and February 1946. The broadcasts showed that he was alive: Netaji said that he was under the "shelter of great world powers" and his utterances revealed that he was aware "my men are being tried at the Red Fort."

Subhas Chandra Bose promised to come to India and sit on judgement on "those trying my men at the Red Fort." He also said that the back of Br...