The cowardice will have been given up.

You will have become men in entrenching yourselves behind the Army.

But under your direction they will have become assassins." With these words--memorable in connection with what happened later, but not in Ulster--the Ulster leader left the House, followed by Captain Craig.

Friday's papers were of course full of the debate.

At noon on that day, March 20, 1914, General Sir Arthur Paget, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, held a meeting with the officers at the Curragh and received the intimation that the majority of them would resign their commissions rather than go on duty which was likely to involve a collision with Ulster.
It seems only fair in dealing with this whole incident to print here an account of what happened, written from the soldier's point of view, by the man who was the spokesman and leader of the resigning officers--Brigadier (now Lieutenant) General Sir Hubert Gough.[2] '"I never refused to obey orders.