Hundreds of thousands of the evacuees have gone back to the towns. That the experiment of removing them has proved a failure is, Decline of the Sword "When Mr. Here-Belisha began an answer to a question last week with the.words "With the' practical disappearance of the sword," he was announcing the last stages in a very gradual development. Writing of the House of Commons, Townsend noted, "One. peculiarity of the daily dress [of members] survived the changes of three centuries—the habit of wear-
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