Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981

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.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, chief of the American Reparations Commission, addressing Korean press representatives in the throne room of the Capitol building, Seoul, Korea. 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, General I. M. Chistiakov, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and General Navidov at dinner in Pyongyang, 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, reparations commissioner, is shown in his car just after his arrival at National Airport in Washington, DC, July 19, 1946. Pauley visited sixteen countries as President Harry S. Truman's personal representative 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 (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right). They appear to be by an airplane.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley with Colonel W. R. Blakeley, PRO, AFPAC, at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan. 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).

Formal portrait of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, dressed in a tuxedo, giving a toast. Written on back of photo, "Toastmaster General Pauley--and the audience who wasn't there."