Ambassadors

Japanese Optical Goods Factory - Mukden, Manchuria. Guard box in portion of factory from which machinery was removed during Soviet occupancy. All machines except lens polishers and some grinders were removed from this large factory which made binoculars, range finders, etc. Note inscription in Russian. 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right) by airplane.

Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner, fund raising dinner for the Democratic party. Senator Harry S. Truman is seated fifth from the left at the long table. Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley is seated seventh from the left.

Ambassador Edwin Pauley with identified U.S. Navy officers on board a ship.

From left to right, Admiral J. H. Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; A. L. Gates, Under-secretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff, AFPAC; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan. Ambassador Pauley arrived to discuss reparation payments. 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.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley and part of staff of U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan. Picture taken at Los Angeles upon the Ambassador's return from the Orient. Left to right: Josiah E. DuBois, Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, William Green Johnston, Dr. Luther Gulick, Stanley Joiner. 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 and Barbara "Bobbe" Pauley (at right) and the crew of the C-54, special Mission plane. Next to Ambassador Pauley in the front is Major William Westerfield, Chief Pilot for C-54, special mission plane. 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).

Guests having cocktails before a dinner held in honor of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at the Imperial Hotel. 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 W. Pauley speaking with unidentified reporters at an unidentified airport by an Air Transport Command airplane, with members of the U.S. military in the background. Ambassador Pauley is head of the Allied Reparations Committee, 1945-47.

From left to right, Admiral John Henry Towers, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, and Major General R. C. Marshall at a dinner held in Pauley's honor at the Imperial Hotel.