Reparations

Changchun, Manchuria; Radio manufacturing plant. Plant stripped by Soviets of radio manufacturing equipment and machinery. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria, damage to Battery and Plumbing Shop of Railway installation. 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).

Chinchow, Manchuria, remains of industrial housing. Photograph shows buildings at a distance with mountains behind. 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).

Hsian, Manchuria; industrial housing wrecked. This was reported as having been done by the Chinese looters. 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).

The remains of plant workers dwellings, first looted by Soviet Troops, then destroyed by local Chinese. Picture shows military jeep parked outside abandoned hull of a building. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria, wreckage of interior of Capitol Building, reported to have been burned by the Soviets. Picture shows interior hallway littered with debris. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria, damaged Capitol building. Picture shows significant smoke damage outside various windows. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria; entrance to Capitol. Photograph shows white stone building with columns at entrance and pagoda style tower. Two gate house buildings are in the front of the picture. 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).

Mutanchiang China, Communist soldier guard for Pauley Mission sitting in a car outside the hotel of Pauley party. People unidentified. 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).

H. M. Thorne, General Kerwey Chiang, and Swift at hotel provided for Pauley Mission in Communist-held Mutanchiang, standing next to a sign that reads Long Live the Sino-American Friendship. 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).