Religions

Outside view of 800-year-old Confucian temple in Liaoyang, Manchuria. 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).

Myron C. Taylor, President Harry S. Truman's personal representative to the Vatican in Rome, chats with Pope Pius XII (right) who is seated at his desk in his office in the Vatican. From: Truman Home.

Nice color photograph of the ark, silver and copper inscribed Torah case, a gift from President Chaim Weizmann of Israel to President Truman. It is now in the museum collection of the Harry S. Truman Library. The ark was used to hold the Torah (Old Testament Five Books of Moses) given to the President on May 27, 1948.

IX Station du Calvaire at Lourdes, located in southwestern France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Le Chemin de Fer - Funiculaire du Pic du Jer. Mountain railroad at Lourdes in southwestern France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Seventh Station du Calvaire at Lourdes in southwestern France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Sixth Station du Calvaire at Lourdes in southwestern France after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Fourth Station du Calvaire at Lourdes in southwestern France after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Third Station du Calvaire at Lourdes in southwestern France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Second Station du Calvaire at Lourdes in southwestern France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.