Ambassador Edwin Pauley Confers With Staff
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).