Jonathan Dimbleby writes that Newton was scrupulous in keeping notes of the cases she examined. On 22 February 1938 she visited the village of Igzim, near Haifa, which had undergone a collective punishment after the assassination of a British officer, a Squadron Leader Alderton. She wrote: "I entered many of the houses and can only say that the havoc which had been wrought was indescribable, and, unless seen with one's own eyes, unbelievable."
