Foreign News: New Marquis

Commonwealth (British Commonwealth of Nations)

The onetime Alice Cohen and her husband, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, were commanded to dine, last week, with the King-Emperor, born George of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As the imperially commanded pair rode in a smart closed carriage attended by postilions from Windsor railroad station to Windsor Castle, they were cheered as the returning Viceroy and Vicereine of India. For them times have changed. . . .

Forty years ago aristocratic London had no notion of the existence of this son of Merchant Isaacs and daughter of Merchant Cohen. Last...

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