Noel Pemberton Billing also took the view that homosexuality was infiltrating and tainting English society, and that this was linked to German espionage in the context of World War I [REF].
Billing's journal was renamed Vigilante, and published an article, "The Cult of the Clitoris", which implied that the actress Maud Allan, then appearing in a private production of Salome organised by Ross, was a lesbian associate of the conspirators.