Reparations

Earl L. Shaner in Anshan, Manchuria, during the U.S. Reparations tour, on a train. 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).

Norman M. Taylor, a member of the U.S. Reparations tour in Manchuria, hangs out of a train engine car. 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).

Staff of Edwin Pauley's Reparations mission and Chinese Nationalist soldiers who took an iron mine from the Communists long enough for an inspection. 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, Colonel William Mayer, General Lin Piao, and John P. Hurndall, members of Edwin Pauley's Reparations mission, in Harbin, 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).

Typical improvised bridge replacement for those destroyed by Communists in Anshan, 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).

Photograph of children in Anshan, Manchuria 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).

Photo of an airplane propeller taken in Anshan, Manchuria, 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).

Road block being built in Anshan, Manchuria, 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).

Dinner in Anshan, Manchuria, 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).