Reparations

Members of the Reparations Mission party at a banquet at City Hall in Fushun, Manchuria. Sign on wall behind them reads, "We are happy to have you in Fushon to make an investigation." 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 (standing at left) speaking at a banquet at City Hall in Fushun, 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (right) and an unidentified Chinese man inspect a doorway in an interior wall at the Toyo Tire and Rubber Company in Mukden, Manchuria. The doorway was knocked out on one side to enlarge it for the removal of industrial equipment during the Soviet occupation. 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).

Soviet soldiers in the process of removing heavy equipment from a factory in Manchuria. Picture copied from photo furnished by Chinese authorities in Manchuria to the U.S. Reparations Mission. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (second from left) and party inspect Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 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).

Olsen, member of Reparations Mission party, drives a jeep through the "Flea Market" area of outdoor merchant stalls 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).

A photographer setting up a shot with a camera on a tripod in Manchu Tomb Park, 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).

Taxi stand behind Municipal Buildings in Mukden, Manchuria. Taxis are traditional Chinese rickshaws. 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).

Crowds in the "Flea Market" area of outdoor merchant stalls 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).