Reparations

Ambassador Edwin Pauley (center) confers with Lt. Col. Gail S. Carter (left) and Justin Wolf at National Airport, Washington, D.C., just prior to departure for Japan, Nov. 1, 1945. 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).

Dr. Ernest L. Klein "relaxing" in Seoul, Korea. 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).

Street scene in Seoul, Korea. 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).

Captain Marlin Fenical posing next to the Temple of Heaven "guard" in Seoul, Korea. 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).

Largest bell in Korea on Emperor's Palace grounds in Seoul, Korea. 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 Pauley (third from left, partially obscured) with unidentified members of his staff. 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).

Accompanied by high ranking officers, Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected a vase from a Japanese treasure store of gold, silver, diamonds and platinum buried deep in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of Japan. Above, Ambassador Pauley inspects a solid silver vase intricately decorated with gold and platinum figures. Maj. Gen. Chase, CG of the First Cavalry Division, looks on. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

Shown at Ambassador Pauley's dinner at the Imperial Hotel are left to right: Admiral John Henry Towers, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, and Major General R. C. Marshall. 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).

On the lawn, in front of the villa, at the Duck Hunting grounds, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, in center, and party, have tea before starting on a hunt. 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).

A shot of Ambassador Edwin Pauley (third from left) and his party during the duck hunt. 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).