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On Mon. 18 Oct 1943 Louis Mountbatten met with Chiang Kaishek for the.....

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Louis Mountbatten met with Chiang Kaishek for the first time. Chiang was 15 minutes late to the meeting; in retaliation, Mountbatten purposefully spent a long time shifting through his attach_ case for various documents during the meeting.

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