Tribune: "P.I. Assured Republican Policy ... PCPI deliberates on final draft of Constitution." Asked to explain what is a republic, Laurel said: "It is a representative democracy, a Commonwealth where the powers of the state are vested in the representatives who are directly or indirectly [well, which one is it?] elected by the people." In our case, the people are the Japanese.

The Commentator's latest has turned the town upside down trying to understand it: "Anglo-Americans Trapped in Sicily."