867N.01/1262: Telegram
The Minister Resident in Iraq (Knabenshue) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 10—6:05 a.m.]
46. My telegram No. 44, November 2, 2 p.m. Medical and secondary school students demonstrated yesterday on the main street of Baghdad in support of Palestine Arabs breaking many shop windows, [Page 984] doing some looting and wounding a number of police and individuals with stones. It seems to have been directed against the United States in part though mainly anti-British.
The new policy of the British Government was not known here until last evening. I shall report as soon as possible on local reaction.