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Burning Oil. Next morning a sullen mob, recruited from Baghdad's slums and with scarcely a student in it, gathered at one end of squalid, narrow Rashid Street, in the heart of the city. Reds raced up & down like cheerleaders, whipping up the mob; one agitator showed the approved method of handling opposition by leaping at a parked bus and slashing its tires with a huge knife...
...started down Rashid Street. As it passed the U.S. Information Service Building, a group, led by a known Communist and carrying oil, crowbars and battering rams, broke ranks and headed straight for the USIS. The men battered down steel shutters (it was Sunday), climbed inside and methodically began pitching everything out of the windows-books, typewriters, files, cabinets, papers, a safe. Then they doused the thousands of jumbled books and magazines with oil and fired them. The building was also set afire. Within an hour the USIS establishment in Baghdad, valued at $125,000, an important weapon in the cold...
...people in Bagdad were not happy. Thousands surged through Rashid Street, Bagdad's dingy main thoroughfare, clamoring for "full independence and sovereignty." Soldiers turned back a mob which tried to close in on the British Embassy. Police and soldiers fired into the crowds. Students went on protest strikes. One correspondent reported that "girl students . . . demonstrated as fiercely as the men, clashed with police, and received bites and injuries; this aroused the public...
Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
...like Haroun al Rashid, Prince Mohamed occasionally doffed his princely garb and mingled with commoners...