from the es Ezpress of 3/11/63
Harold Wilson has been a-wooing in the City. In diserset lunchtime moetings he has turned on the charm to convinee insurance and property tycoons that he is not such a fearsome chap after all. Mr. Wilson tells friends privately that "sll the le I have seen have boen reassured." (emphasis in the original + ae
Insurance firms have been given to understand that there is absolutely no question of nationelisation,. There will bo fair competition from State pensions and requests that money should be made availablo for salacted pro—jecta. JIut, if the companies play ball, they noed not be afraid of anything drastic, Property men have boon told that ho is after speculators in residontial property and land - mt that office tuilders would little to worry about if a Socialist Government camo to powerssescise