[3] The Methodist clergyman Lee Kyungsun headed the China Aid Society, Korean Volunteers Corps Aid Society in China and American Branch of the Korean National Revolutionary Party, organizations that were in favor of armed action.
[4] The socialist Byun Jun-ho was one of the founders of the China Aid Society, and represented the New York branch at the Korean National Association.
Byun Jun-ho dedicated himself to the cause of armed resistance after the Korean Volunteers Corps Aid Society was established in 1940 in China, and from 1943 onward chaired the North America branch of the Korean National Revolutionary Party.
He was among those who petitioned Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas to admit the exiled Japanese Marxist theatre director Seki Sano.
[3] Harold Winston Rhodes was president of the China Aid Society in New Zealand during the war.