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

The Truman Family at the Truman Library Ground Breaking Ceremony

Former President Harry S. Truman (left, just in front of flag) is seated with his family at the ground breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. Margaret can be seen to the right of him, and his sister Mary Jane is to the right of her. University of Missouri President Elmer Ellis (second from right) is also seated with the Trumans, and Basil O'Conner is seated behind Margaret Truman, partly obscured. Edwin Pauley can also be seen (third from the right in the background). All others are unidentified.

The Big Three Sit Down for the First Meeting of the Potsdam Conference

The Opening Session of the Potsdam Conference poses for photographers. President Harry S. Truman is near the center at the back end of the table, wearing a bow tie. Clockwise around the table, starting at President Truman: Charles Bohlen; two unidentified men; British foreign minister Anthony Eden; Prime Minister Winston Churchill; unidentified British military officer; Clement Attlee; unidentified man; Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Joseph Stalin; two unidentified men; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State James Byrnes.

Pauley Greets Anne Clark

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, personal representative of President Harry S. Truman, greets Anne Clark as he arrives at General Mark Clark's home in Vienna, Austria. From left to right, Anne Clark, General Mark Clark, Ambassador Edwin Pauley. Ambassador Pauley is on the Reparations Mission.

Pauley, Towers, Gates, and Marshall at Atsugi Airfield, Japan

From left to right, Admiral John Henry Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; Artemus L. Gates, Under-secretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan. Ambassador Pauley arrived in Japan to discuss reparations payments and policy. He was the personal representative of President Harry S. Truman in this regard. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

Edwin Pauley Meets H. D. Maxwell at Atsugi Airfield in Japan

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left), President Harry S. Truman's personal representative on reparations, being greeted upon his arrival at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan, by H. D. Maxwell, Special Assistant and Chief of Staff to Ambassador Pauley. 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.