The ParamusPost.com Reports on Clara Breed.
According to a new book about Breed, the librarian felt she had to do something, especially for the children. At the library, and then at the train station on evacuation day, she handed out postcards with her home address and urged the kids to let her know how they were doing.
“You said once that you were afraid of dissension among the Japanese,” she wrote in a letter to one of the youngsters who was leaving. “I have moments of being afraid of America. I want so much to have her live up to your unshaken belief in her.”
Breed was being a friend to the evacuees, but once a librarian always a librarian. No matter where they wound up, she promised she would send books.
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