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Ambassador Jessup at Sanjusangendo Temple

Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup and his party visiting Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto, Japan. From left to right: American Vice Consul James B. Lindsey, Ambassador Jessup (foreground), Lois (Mrs. Philip C.) Jessup (third from left), Dr. Charles N. Spinks, Mr. William M. Gibson, and unidentified Japanese attendant (right). Ambassador Jessup visited Kyoto as part of his larger mission to the Far East.

Members of U.S. Reparations Mission Team at Temple of Heaven, Peiping, China

Peiping, China: Thorne and Cleaveland standing in the "Center of the Universe" at Temple of Heaven. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).