New Year honors announced in behalf of the King include a new Jewish Lord and two knights. Col. Herbert Jessel, an important leader of the Conservative Party machine, has been raised to the peerage. Lord Jessel is the son of Sir George Jessel, the famous judge and first Jewish Master of Rolls. The two Jews to be knighted are Bachelor Storrs and Lewis Cohen, Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Australia.
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