Ambassadors

Left to right: Gail Carter, Edwin Pauley, Richard P. Gaynor, and Martin T. Bennett in Calcutta, India, during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Waiters in hats at a restaurant in Calcutta, India. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors). Pauley stands second from left.

Earl L. Shaner, Martin T. Bennett, Edwin Pauley, Marshall, and Sgt. John Matles in Calcutta, India, during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Commander Edelstein and Edwin Pauley on the U.S. Reparations Mission, prior to leaving for Calcutta. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley (left) and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister Wang-Shih-chieh, Edwin Pauley, and General Chu Shih-ming, Commanding General of the Japanese Theater. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley (third from left) and Chinese Generals in Fushun, Manchuria during the U.S. Reparations Tour. Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley reviews the guard in Fushun, Manchuria, during the U.S. Reparations Tour. Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Children greet Edwin Pauley in Fushun, Manchuria during the U.S. Reparations Tour. Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

L-R, Ambassador from Pakistan and Truman Library Director Philip C. Brooks visit at the Harry S. Truman Library.