AGENTS FOR JAPAN
SENTENCED IN UNITED STATES. I IMPRISONMENT FOR SEVEN YEARS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, November 12. The Federal Court sentenced Joseph Hilton Smyth, Walker Grey Matheson and Irvine Harvey Williams, who pleaded guilty to a breach of the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act, to seven years’ imprisonment. Judge Campbell, passing sentence, said the crime was not connected with the right of a writer to express his views. Defendants by the use of a magazine spread propaganda while in the hire of the Japanese Government, and failed to inform the State Department thereof.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1942, Page 2
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94AGENTS FOR JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1942, Page 2
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