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Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, (left) President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, and Brig. Gen. Hoffman, Provost Marshal of Tokyo, inspecting a miniature battleship of solid silver - one of the many valuable curios found among a vast treasure store of diamonds, gold, silver and platinum in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).