Ambassadors

Myron C. Taylor, President Harry S. Truman's personal representative to the Vatican in Rome, chats with Pope Pius XII (right) who is seated at his desk in his office in the Vatican. From: Truman Home.

Ambassador Edwin Pauley questions Displaced Persons while touring Camp in Furth, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley (back to camera) questions Displaced Persons while touring camp in Furth, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Members of U.S. Reparations Mission Staff eat lunch at Displaced Persons Farm, Furth, Germany. The farm is identified as previously that of "Jew Baiter" Streicher. Ambassador Edwin Pauley is seated second from the right. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Group of displaced persons in discussion with Ambassador Edwin Pauley at Displaced Persons Farm, Furth, Germany. A banner in a foreign language hangs on building behind group. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley receives flowers from school children at Displaced Persons Camp in Furth, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Arrival of Ambassador Edwin Pauley at Eschborn Field, Frankfurt, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Members of the U.S. Reparations Mission having dinner at their billet, 48 Am Hirsch Sprung in Berlin, Germany. Edwin Pauley is seated at the head of the table. 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).

Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes (left) being greeted by Mr. Jacobsen (center) and Monnett Davis, American Minister to Denmark at Copenhagen Airport. Mr. Ickes is exploring the petroleum situation.

Edwin W. Pauley (left) greeted by Colonel O'Keefe (right) at Washington National Airport upon Ambassador Pauley's return to the U.S. 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).