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Left to Right: Commander Edelstein, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley. The two men are sitting in a car prior to takeoff for Calcutta, India. 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).

President Harry S. Truman (left)shakes hands with General Douglas MacArthur after stepping off the presidential plane, The Independence, onto Wake Island for a historic conference on Communist aggression in the Far East and restoration of peace in war-torn Korea. Other in the photo are unidentified. From: Gordon B. Cone.

Dr. Ernest L. Klein (at left), Sergeant John Matles (top row), B. S. Bercovici and friends in Seoul, Korea. 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).

Sergeant John Matles posing next to a stone carving at the Temple of Heaven in Seoul, Korea. 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).

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).

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 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).

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).

Left to right: Admiral John Henry Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; Artemus L. Gates, Undersecretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley arrive at Atsungi Airfield in Tokyo, Japan and are greeted by high Navy and Army officials. 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). Same as 2009-1386.

Ambassador Edwin Pauley stands on the tarmac in front of an Air Transport Command airplane at a Los Angeles airport, upon his return from the Orient. Left to Right: Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Barbara Pauley, Mrs. Claude Cameron. Photograph taken after 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).