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Pauley Views Japanese Treasures

Accompanied by high ranking officers, Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected a vast Japanese treasure store of gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, and silverware deep in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of Japan. Pending Allied disposition the treasure will remain in the bank's vaults. Above, Brig. Gen. Hoffman, Tokyo Provost Marshal; Ambassador Pauley and Maj. Gen. Chase, CG of the First Cavalry Division, (Left to right) inspect silver ingots in vault 2. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

Ambassador Pauley and an Unidentified Staff Member

Accompanied by a high ranking officer, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected vast Japanese treasures. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Pauley Views Japanese Treasures

Accompanied by high ranking officers, Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected a vast Japanese Tokyo Bank of Japan. Above, left to right, as they inspected some of the treasures are: Major General Chase, CG of the First Cavalry Division; Ambassador Edwin Pauley and Brigadier General F. Baker, Public Relations Officer. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Pauley Views Japanese Treasures

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, (left) President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, and Brig. Gen. Hoffman, Provost Marshal of Tokyo, inspecting a miniature battleship of solid silver - one of the many valuable curios found among a vast treasure store of diamonds, gold, silver and platinum in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of Japan. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley Confers With Staff

Ambassador Edwin Pauley (center) confers with Lt. Col. Gail S. Carter (left) and Justin Wolf at National Airport, Washington, D.C., just prior to departure for Japan, Nov. 1, 1945. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Pauley Views Japanese Treasures

Accompanied by high ranking officers, Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected a vase from a Japanese treasure store of gold, silver, diamonds and platinum buried deep in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of Japan. Above, Ambassador Pauley inspects a solid silver vase intricately decorated with gold and platinum figures. Maj. Gen. Chase, CG of the First Cavalry Division, looks on. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

Towers, Pauley, and R. C. Marshall at Ambassador Pauley's Dinner at the Imperial Hotel

Shown at Ambassador Pauley's dinner at the Imperial Hotel are left to right: Admiral John Henry Towers, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, and Major General R. C. Marshall. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley and His Party Have Tea Before Duck Hunting

On the lawn, in front of the villa, at the Duck Hunting grounds, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, in center, and party, have tea before starting on a hunt. Photograph taken 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).