_Must Act in Conformance With Request_: The next group of statutes compel the administrator to accept and to act in accordance with recommendations or requests coming from a source beyond his agency. The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended in 1942, permitted certain exemptions from its registration provisions. The Attorney General might, after notice to the employing government or the person concerned, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, terminate in whole or in part an exemption from registration granted to United States residents who were employees of a foreign government. When the Secretary of State initiated a request for termination of an exemption, the Attorney General had to comply with the request.[686] The Second War Powers Act of 1942 contained a provision for the waiving of navigation and inspection laws under certain conditions. The head of each department or agency responsible for the administration of the navigation and vessel inspection laws was directed to waive compliance of such laws upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy or the Secretary of War to the extent believed necessary in the conduct of the war by the officer making the request.[687] The discretion of federal jurists has to some extent been subjected to constriction by the executive. The Secretary of the Navy was given power, in a July, 1944, statute, to certify to federal courts that pending suits arising out of damage caused by naval vessels or towage or salvage services to naval vessels would, if tried, tend to endanger the security of naval operations. Upon receiving such a certification, the federal court having jurisdiction in the case was required to stay further proceedings until six months after the cessation of hostilities or such earlier date as the Secretary of the Navy might set.[688] Congress, in February, 1952, took emergency action temporarily suspending the import duty on lead. The Tariff Commission was to advise the President at the end of any month in which the average market price of lead delivered at New York had fallen below eighteen cents per pound, “and the President shall, by proclamation, not later than twenty days after he has been so advised by the Tariff Commission, revoke such suspension of the duties.”[689] In June, 1952, the President issued a proclamation under this Act, revoking the suspension of the duty.[690]