 Her last major work was the libretto of the feminist opera "The Mother of Us All" (1947) about the socially progressive suffragette movement and another work from this time, "Brewsie and Willie" (1946), expressed strong support for American G.I.s.A compendium of source material confirms that Stein may have been able to save her life and sustain her lifestyle through the protection of powerful Vichy government official Bernard Faÿ.Stein had met Faÿ in 1926, and he became her "dearest friend during her life", according to Alice B. Toklas.