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Following the public revelation of the treatment of these conscientious objectors in France in the summer of 1916, the Prime Minister promised in the House of Commons that such brutality would never reoccur and, as thousands were killing each other in the Battle of the Somme, a new policy came into force. Cases of all imprisoned conscientious objectors would be reviewed and those agreed as genuine would be released from prison provided they accepted to undertake work of national importance under the control of a new civilian committee in what came to be known at the Home Office Scheme. Any man who refused, or whose plea of conscience failed to satisfy the Tribunal, would be returned to complete his sentence in jail.

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