Reparations

Edwin Pauley, in the gray civilian suit, with the American and Russian delegations on Allied Council for Japan. 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).

Edwin Pauley (left) with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (center) and an unidentified man.

Edwin Pauley (right) visits with Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang. Man at far left is unidentified.

Left to right: Admiral R. A. Spruance (back to camera), Artemus L. Gates (Undersecretary of the Navy), Ambassador Edwin Pauley (partially obscured), and Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 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).

Unidentified officer in China during the Reparations Mission. 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).

Members of the U.S. Reparations Trip at the Peiling Aerodrome in China. 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).

Power Plant at Fushun Coal Mine in China. 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).

Edwin Pauley (front and center) at Fushun Coal Mine in China. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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).

Fushun Coal Mine. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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).

Fushun Coal Mine in China. 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).