ABSTRACT
Kato Shidzue wrote Dorothy Brush expressing gratitude for the "unchangeable friendship" which she had warmly extended. She told Dorothy that she would "cherish" their friendship even more "when the water on the Pacific is rough." In a lighter vein Shidzue attached a postscript telling Dorothy how far her gift of five dollars had stretched in those economically trying times. In late May, 1941, Shidzue wrote her friends about meetings with Madame Kamaladevi, of India's family planning movement. "Madame Kamaladevi has been popular since she is being introduced as 'anti-British'." Shidzue received her last communication from Mary Beard shortly before the December 7th bombing of Pearl Harbor. From 1942 until the fall of 1945 Shidzue's friends received no word of her. Their last contact had been through Gladys Walser, missionary resident of Japan, who had returned home in 1942.
