Reparations

From left to right, Elbert L. Pauley, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and Martin Bennett, in Beverly Hills, California. Edwin Pauley and Mr. Bennett are involved with the Reparations Mission.

Pauley Mission members William Mayer, H. M. Thorne and Norman Taylor standing on covered porch at the Harbin Yacht Club on the banks of the Sungari, Manchuria, China. 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; H. M. Thorne in front of monument Soviets erected to themselves. 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).

Crowds gather at railroad station at a little mountain town between Harbin and Mutanchiang to see members of the Pauley Mission pass through. Some of the people incidentally were of Russian descent. 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).

Harbin, Manchuria, charcoal burner in old car being stocked up. There's no gasoline except for Soviet automobiles and Chinese Communist vehicles. 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).

Thorne says goodbye to Chinese Communists and Cleaveland does the same to Soviet Tass correspondent as Mission leaves Harbin. 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).

Car repair shop, Mutanchiang, Manchuria; the Soviets made practically a complete removal of machines, tools and equipment from the shops at this plant. 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, Manchuria railway shops. Electric Generator foundations above, and control panel foundations below. Evidence indicates that the Soviets removed this equipment. 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).

Harbin, Manchuria. Railroad Bridge crossing the Sungari River. 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, Manchuria, south Manchurian railway Shops. Locomotive and Tender Shop. (Communist-held section of Manchuria). This shop was stripped of all machine tools and then burned. 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).