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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2n SESS.-CH. 263 -APR. 29, 1942 filing is required under sections 2 (a) and 2 (b) hereof and shall also be under obligation to cause such agent to comply with all the require- ments of sections 4 (a), 4 (b), and 5 and all other requirements of this Act. In case of failure of any such agent of a foreign principal to comply with any of the requirements of this Act, each of its officers, or persons performing the functions of officers, and each of its direc- tors, or persons performing the functions of directors, shall be subject to prosecution therefor. "EN FORCEMENT AND PENALTIES "SEC. 8 . (a) Any person who- "(1) willfully violates any provision of this Act or any regula- tion thereunder, or "(2) in any registration statement or supplement thereto or in any statement under section 4 (a) hereof concerning the distribu- tion of political propaganda or in any other document filed with or furnished to the Attorney General under the provisions of this Act willfully makes a false statement of a material fact or will- fully omits any material fact required to be stated therein or willfully omits a material fact or a copy of a material document necessary to make the statements therein and the copies of docu- ments furnished therewith not misleading, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. "(b) In any proceeding under this Act in which it is charged that a person is an agent of a foreign principal with respect to a foreign principal outside of the United States, proof of the specific identity of the foreign principal shall be permissible but not necessary. "(c) Any alien who shall be convicted of a violation of, or a con- spiracy to violate, any provision of this Act or any regulation there- under shall be subject to deportation in the manner provided by sections 19 and 20 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 889, 890), as amended. "(d) The Postmaster General may declare to be nonmailable any communication or expression falling within clause (2) of section 1 (j) hereof in the form of prints or in any other form reasonably adapted to, or reasonably appearing to be intended for, dissemination or circulation among two or more persons, which is offered or caused to be offered for transmittal in the United States mails to any person or persons in any other American republic by any agent of a foreign principal, if the Postmaster General is informed in writing by the Secretary of State that the duly accredited diplomatic representative of such American republic has made written representation to the Department of State that the admission or circulation of such com- munication or expression in such American republic is prohibited by the laws thereof and has requested in writing that its transmittal thereto be stopped. "APPLICABILITY OF ACT "SEC. 9 . This Act shall be applicable in the several States, the District of Columbia, the Territories, the Canal Zone, the insular possessions, including the Philippine Islands, and all other places now or hereafter subject to the civil or military jurisdiction of the United States. " RU LES AND REGULATIONS "SEC. 10. The Attorney General may at any time make, prescribe, amend, and rescind such rules, regulations, and forms as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 65714°-43 - -T. I- - -17 257 Violations. False statements and willful omissions. Penalty. Proof of identity of foreign principal. Deportation provi- sion. 8 U.S. C . §§155,156 . Post, p. 1044 . Nonmailable matter. Ante, p. 251 .