Thorne, H. M.

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).

Peiping, China - H. M. Thorne rides in a rickshaw. 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).

Peiping, China - H. M. Thorne and Norm Taylor in front of Lily pond at Summer Palace. 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).

In Changchun, Manchuria, Chinese school children surround H. M. Thorne as he inspects railroad shops. 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).

H. M. Thorne, General Kerwey Chiang, and Swift at hotel provided for Pauley Mission in Communist-held Mutanchiang, standing next to a sign that reads Long Live the Sino-American Friendship. 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).

From left to right, Mr. Swift, Martin Bennett, and H. M. Thorne, members of the Reparations Mission, look at a camera at a party in Beverly Hills, California. 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).

Pauley Mission members William Mayer, H. M. Thorne and Norman Taylor standing on covered porch at the Harbin Yacht Club on the banks of the Sungari, Manchuria, China. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria; H. M. Thorne in front of monument Soviets erected to themselves. 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).

Thorne says goodbye to Chinese Communists and Cleaveland does the same to Soviet Tass correspondent as Mission leaves Harbin. 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).

Dick Johnston (left) and Thorne (right), ready for take-off for Harbin from airport in Mukden, 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).