of Versailles as ineffectual towards that aim and blamed Allied politicians, Lloyd George especially, for bowing to President Wilson's pressure to make the treaty less harsh. Maxse believed Germany was still able to restore itself as the dominant European power. Maxse vehemently opposed the League of Nations: in his view the League was a "front-bench affair hurriedly adopted and recklessly advocated simply and solely to please President Wilson". He claimed Hindenburg and Ludendorff controlled Germany from behind-the-scenes, regardless of which politician was in office, and that it was unnecessary to appease Germany to prevent her from going Bolshevik because Prussian militarism was still the dominant force. The Allied intervention in Russia, aimed at overthrowing the Bolsheviks, was supported by Maxse, not just because he disliked Bolshevism but because he wanted Russia to resume her pre-revolution role of being an anti-German power. Maxse was also pro-French and pro-Polish. During 1920–1922, Maxse attacked Lloyd George for failing to "f[i]ght for a...greater France, support...Poland, sustain...Bohemia, nourish...Rumania [and] uphold our allies in Russia". He became an outspoken critic of British Zionism, condemning attempts to occupy Palestine. Maxse would lose influence with the advent of Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party. Works The Great Marconi Mystery (London: The National Review Office, 1913). "Germany on the Brain", or, the Obsession of "A Crank": Gleanings from The National Review, 1899–1914 (London: The National Review Office, 1915). (preface), Victory or Free Trade? (London: The National Review Office, 1917). Politicians on the War-Path (London: The National Review Office, 1920). Notes References External links Biographical notes on Maxse at the University of Glasgow. The Genesis of the "A.B.C." Memorandum of 1901. People educated at Harrow School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Presidents of the Cambridge Union British magazine editors English male tennis players British male tennis players 1864 births 1932 deaths Leopold Tennis people from Greater London