Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Reparations Representative Ed Pauley prepared a report for President Truman recommending that the U.S. pull up its socks in Korea: as in Germany, there was no point in simply waiting for Russian cooperation on unified control of the country. Japanese reparations to Korea must be sped up, machinery moved into the U.S. zone of Korea and economic aid supplied, so that the whole area will develop into a unit capable of independent government. The U.S., said Pauley, has a clear opportunity and responsibility to demonstrate to Koreans that democracy will work better than Communism...
Some of George's critics thought this was going a bit too far-and they also thought George might never get the job. In almost the same breath, Harry Truman had nominated three other cronies-Jake Vardaman, Stu Symington and Ed Pauley-for top Government jobs, and the public howled. Ed Pauley subsequently had to withdraw after some dissection by a Senate committee; but George, as usual, was equal to the occasion...
...part of it all was that President Truman, who had stood stoutly by States' Rightsman Pauley, was believed certain to veto the bill. He thought it a matter for the Supreme Court to decide...
Last week the U.S. added new counts to its indictment of the Russian grab. Washington protested Russia's stripping of Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Edwin W. Pauley, chief U.S. reparations surveyor, charged that Russia's looting of Manchuria had stopped the wheels of $2 billion worth of industries and set back by a generation the industrial advancement of 900 million Asiatics...
...Pauley neatly tied reparations to the issue of integrated administration of Germany. German reparations cannot be shipped to Russia, he said, "because no zone commander can go forward until he knows whether Germany is in reality to be treated as a single economic unit, as was agreed at Potsdam, or whether he must plan to run his zone as an independent economy...