Opinion ID: 1474108
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Main Question.

Text: Against these clear requirements stands the biggest question of this case, do the Act and the authorized regulations issued thereunder require, in addition to the revelation of his political activities under the contract with, or in behalf of, the foreign principal, the disclosure in some detail of all other political activities of the registrant, at least when these political activities are regular enough to be called a part of his business. The jury was instructed in this case that the proper construction of the Act, regulations and forms require the registrant in his supplementary statements to reveal all of his political activities for the previous six months whether or not the activities were as agent for the foreign principal. The discussion of the main question will necessarily cover not only this defendant's objections to the instructions given, but also much of his argument that he was indicted for one crime, and tried for another, and neither of which constituted a violation of the Statute.