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June 13, 1933

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LONDON EXPECTS DEFAULT; Roosevelt Reported as Unable to Accept 'Token' Payment. TALKS ARE STILL PRESSED Further Communication From Envoy at Washington May Bring Decision Today. PLEA AROUSES AMERICANS Disturbed Surprise Expressed by Some in Delegation at Rais- ing of Issue in Conference. LONDON FORESEES DEFAULT ON DEBT

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, Tuesday, June 13. -- After a day filled with rumors as to the course of the war debts talks between Washington and London, a meeting of the British Cabinet was abruptly called late last night. It began at 10 Downing Street at 11 P.M. and lasted until almost midnight.

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Notable Births

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater

1933Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence[†]

Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1983 to 1992, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bridgwater in Somerset from 1970 to 2001. He was made a life peer in 2001.

Norman Lloyd-Edwards

1933Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan[†]

Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards served as the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1990 to 2008.