Reparations

Coal Hydrogenation Research Institute in Mukden, Manchuria. Openings made in the side of building for the removal of equipment during Soviet occupancy. 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).

Sumitomo Metal Industries in Anshan, Manchuria. Interior of seamless tube mill. All equipment for making steel tubes was removed during Soviet occupancy. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. Core spring making plant from which all machine tools and machines, except for a few old spring presses of obsolete type and some furnaces, were removed during Soviet occupancy. Overhead cranes were removed completely. 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).

From left to right, Lieutenant William Clark; Mr. Josiah Dubois, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Lawrence Richardson, transportation expert; and Mr. Martin T. Bennett, industrial engineer, at an informal dinner given by General Mark W. Clark, CG USFA, for Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley and group visiting Vienna, Austria. Mr. 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.

From left to right, Admiral J. H. Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; A. L. Gates, Under-secretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff, AFPAC; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan. Ambassador Pauley arrived to discuss reparation payments. 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 and part of staff of U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan. Picture taken at Los Angeles upon the Ambassador's return from the Orient. Left to right: Josiah E. DuBois, Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, William Green Johnston, Dr. Luther Gulick, Stanley Joiner. 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).

Guests having cocktails before a dinner held in honor of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at the Imperial Hotel. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley speaking with unidentified reporters at an unidentified airport by an Air Transport Command airplane, with members of the U.S. military in the background. Ambassador Pauley is head of the Allied Reparations Committee, 1945-47.

From left to right, Admiral John Henry Towers, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, and Major General R. C. Marshall at a dinner held in Pauley's honor at the Imperial Hotel.

From left to right, Major General Akin, Admiral John Henry Towers, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and Major General R. C. Marshall at Pauley's dinner at the Imperial Hotel.