Ambassadors

Left to right: Admiral R. A. Spruance (back to camera), Artemus L. Gates (Undersecretary of the Navy), Ambassador Edwin Pauley (partially obscured), and Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 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 (front and center) at Fushun Coal Mine in China. Photograph taken 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 (left) at Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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 (with sunglasses) at Anshan Steel Plant in China. Photograph taken 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 (with sunglasses) at Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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).

Anshan Steel Work in China. 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).

Edwin Pauley (with sunglasses) at Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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 (with sunglasses) at Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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 (right) at Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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 and others at the Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken 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).