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Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister Wang-Shih-chieh, Edwin Pauley, and General Chu Shih-ming, Commanding General of the Japanese Theater. 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).

Norman Cleaveland, Communist General Kerwey Chiang, and Norman M. Taylor 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).

A. B. Einig (right) and a Chinese official during the U.S. Reparations tour in Manchuria. 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).

Manchurians display the Nazi flag in Fushun, Manchuria. 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).

Portrait of Loy Henderson, Director for Near East, Africa, and Southern Asia, Department of State.

Judge Harry S. Truman and Judge Battle McCardle in the old log Jackson County Court House. This old court house was being used while the other Court House was being renovated.

Senator Harry S. Truman (center) at a dinner, flanked by Thomas N. Dysart, President of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce (left) and A.P. Greensfelder (right).

Unidentified man in standing in a field. From: George Smith, Agriculture Extension Service.

Harry S. Truman (left foreground) at a banquet. Others unidentified. From the Kansas City Star.

Group of men viewing plaque on the Harry S. Truman Bridge, Kansas City, Missouri, with Independence, Missouri mayor Roger Sermon second from right. Others unidentified. The plaque states: "For Harry S. Truman, who in the midst of the most devastating and extensive war of all time, became the 32nd President of the United States of America, this structure is named the President Harry S. Truman Bridge, and is dedicated to the service of this nation in war and peace by the railroads that built it. The Milwaukee Road, H.A. Scandrett, Trustee; Rock Island Lines, J.D.