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Crowd of Chinese people at Pauley's arrival in Fushun, Manchuria

A crowd of Chinese people, many holding flags and banners, stands waiting to welcome Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at the railroad station in Fushun, 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).