France Eyes Alsace Lorraine and Birth Policy Postwar
By Herbert Corey an analysis of French campaigns on Alsace Lorraine and a projected birth rate program to secure future military strength. It notes France’s demand for coal and iron from Lorraine and Metz, and argues that future peace hinges on population growth, with proposals to tax childlessness and reward families with three or more children while freeing fathers of high child counts from military service.