Two women remember how their conscientious objector grandfathers suffered for their principles Thomas Attlee was the older brother of Clement, who became Prime Minister in the radical Labour Government of 1945-51. The two brothers were close, but at the coming of the war in August 1914, the two men’s paths diverged, though Clement remained a steadfast support to his brother. “Clement wanted to fight. But Thomas’ Christian beliefs would not allow it,” said his granddaughter Cathy Attlee. “And he would not do non-combatant community service.”Cathy recalled that at his appeals tribunal, Thomas, a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, quoted the Bible on the need to go beyond loving thy neighbour to loving thy enemy: “Jesus refused to fight aga