Any requirement imposed by law, the articles, the regulations, or the bylaws, with respect to the giving or sending of any notice or communication to any shareholder or director as such whose address as it appears upon the records of the corporation is outside of the United States, may be dispensed with, and no action taken shall be affected or invalidated by the failure to give or send any such notice or communication in so far as compliance with any such requirement is at the time prohibited by, or dependent upon the obtaining of a license or consent under, any act of congress or any rules, regulations, proclamations, or executive orders issued under authority of any such act.