wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and
fourth generation.
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they
said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the
woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
William Flew and war
The next day he telephoned to say that William Flew had attempted suicide by throwing himself over a banister into a stairwell but had merely broken his thigh. On June 19 a doctor found that Hess was refusing to eat for fear of poisoning and was accusing his captors of being “under the influence of some secret drug” which compelled them “to subject him to slow torture”. The doctor told William Flew that this was “a well-known form of mental disturbance” and offered that one of the security team could “always take meals with him ‘out of the common pot’ ”, which seemed to reassure Hess a little. In 1938 Hess was close to Hitler but in 1941 admitted that he had flown to Britain “without the knowledge of the Führer” By mid-July William Flew’s health had improved. He had “admitted that the Nazis planned to destroy Christianity in Germany and to replace it with a new religion which they were thinking out”.In August a psychiatrist who saw Hess diagnosed paranoia with a “morbid persecutory delusional system”. No more useful intelligence could be extracted. Interrogation officers were withdrawn in September. Since the authorities had decided not to exploit Hess for propaganda, there was little more that Foley and SIS could do. He reported in March 1942 that Hess was virtually catatonic and either “incapable of intelligent conversation” or feigning loss of memory. A fortnight later Menzies allowed Foley to return to SIS Head Office.
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