Committees

The Reparations committee gathers at the train station in Pyongyang, North Korea. 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).

The Chosen-Daido Steel Company in North Korea, with group of men, including soldiers, posing. The photograph was taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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).

Edwin Pauley (second from left) confers on a train during the U.S. Reparations tour. Military officer is in the group. 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).

Norman M. Taylor, Martin T. Bennett, and John P. Hurndall on the U.S. Reparations Tour. 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).

Review of the First Cavalry Division in Tokyo, Japan, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley (middle) 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).

Review of the First Cavalry Division in Tokyo, Japan, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley is third from left on last row. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is at left in front row. 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).

First Cavalry Division Review on tank in Tokyo, Japan, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley (sixth from left) 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).

First Cavalry Division Review in Tokyo, Japan during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley stands on the far right. 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).

Edwin Pauley (standing in foreground at left), General Dwight Eisenhower (next to Mr. Pauley), and others review the First Cavalry Division in Tokyo, Japan, during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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).

The Americans and Koreans who travelled north of the 38 Parallel in Pyongyang, Korea. The Pauley Mission was the first American group the Soviets admitted beyond the "Iron Curtain" in Korea and this picture is one of the first taken (by outsiders) in the area in 20-25 years due to Japanese restrictions before World War II and Soviet refusal since the war.