Reparations

A member of the Reparations Mission party looking at a mannequin in a storefront window at 20th Century Fox Movie Studio in Beverly Hills, California. 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).

Unidentified members of the Reparations Mission visit the 20th Century Fox Movie Studio in Beverly Hills, California. 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 committee at Mines Field Airport, Los Angeles, California, before takeoff. 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, Stephen Pauley, Sergeant John Matles, and Susan Pauley in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph taken at the time of 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, Charles A. Karl, and Ben Olsen, members of the Reparations Mission, standing near the entrance to the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. 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).

General George F. Schulgen (second from left) at a party in Beverly Hills, California. He was a member of Edwin Pauley's Reparations Mission.

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).