Hotels

Mr. Hendricks (left) and Dick Johnston (right), members of the Reparations Mission, seated at a table in the sun room of the Chosen Hotel, playing cards, 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).

Gate at the entrance of the Chosen Hotel in Seoul, Korea. Korean people are walking and bicycling in the street. 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).

Gate at entrance of Chosen Hotel 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).

From left to right, Charles A. Karl, and Ben Olsen, members of the Reparations Mission, standing near the entrance to the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. 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).

Members of the Reparations Mission party at work in their office in the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as the Yamato Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria. 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).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as the Yamoto Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, with people walking past a large obelisk under construction. The Reparations Mission party stayed at the Shenyang Railway Hotel. 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).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as Yamato Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, including people walking, bicycling, and riding in horse-drawn carts and wagons. The Reparations Mission party stayed in the Shenyang Railway Hotel. 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).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as Yamato Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, including people walking, bicycling, and riding in horse-drawn carts. The Reparations Mission party stayed in the Shenyang Railway Hotel. 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).

Shenyang Railway Hotel and Japanese obelisk in Mukden, Manchuria. Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley and members of the Reparations Mission party stayed at the Shenyang Railway Hotel. 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 (second from left, standing) at Chinese press conference held at Shenyang Railway Hotel in Mukden, Manchuria. 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).