Lord Alfred Douglas Douglas's feelings towards Wilde began to soften. He wrote in "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" that "Sometimes a sin is also a crime (for example, a murder or theft), but this is not the case with homosexuality, any more than with adultery". Throughout the 1930s and until his death Douglas maintained correspondence with many people, including Marie Stopes and George Bernard Shaw. Anthony Wynn wrote the play "Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship" based on the letters between Shaw and Douglas. One of Douglas's final public appearances was his well-received lecture to the Royal Society of Literature on 2
Lord Alfred Douglas a contributing editor. "Plain English" ran until the end of 1922. Douglas would later admit that its policy was "strongly anti-Semitic". From August 1920 (issue No 8) "Plain English" began publishing a long running series of articles called "The Jewish Peril" by Major-General Count Cherep-Spiridovitch the title of which was taken from the fore-title of George Shanks's version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". "Plain English" advertised (from issue 20) The Britons' second edition of Shank's version the Protocols. Douglas challenged the "Jewish Guardian", published by the League of British Jews, to take him to court suggesting they