Seventy years after his speech on the Cold War, Churchill’s words still linger writes Geoffrey Roberts.

A round-up of this morning’s top news.

Australia’s gaffe-prone prime minister took back his second Nazi-related comment in a month after he compared the opposition party leader to German World War II-era propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

A vast trove of modern art seized under Germany’s Nazi regime, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, has been discovered in a Munich apartment among stacks of rotting groceries, German magazine Focus reported.

Rochus Misch, who served as Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of the Second World War and was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died. He was 96.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Adolf Hitler’s rise to power 80 years ago should go on reminding Germans that democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted.

The love letters, school papers, and dramatic works of a college-age Joseph Goebbels reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism and egotistical behaviour, according to a Connecticut auction house selling the pre-war writings of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief.

THE infamous “big lie” quote from Joseph Goebbels had a haunting resonance in Ireland on March 30, 2010 – a day that will live in infamy.

THE ongoing media exposure of virtually every agency of church and state, revealing a shambles of ineptitude, dishonesty and wrongdoing, is indicative of a country whose morality in high places is confined to feathering one’s own nest, blowing one’s own trumpet and protecting one’s own party or institution at any cost.

THE cynicism with which the Pope’s venture onto YouTube was greeted is ill-informed.

A senior Sinn Féin politician today compared Ireland’s only Jewish TD and the Israeli ambassador to a notorious Nazi propagandist.

Richard Collins on how a Cold War crisis produced a wildlife miracle.

SOME pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident when Brazil’s foreign minister said rich countries’ deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

THE Church of Scientology accused a German newspaper of being “grossly irresponsible” yesterday for publishing comments by a historian comparing a speech by Hollywood star Tom Cruise to one by a Nazi minister.

The Church of Scientology has today accused a German newspaper of being "grossly irresponsible" for publishing comments by a historian comparing a speech by Hollywood star Tom Cruise to one by a Nazi minister.

IN hurricane season, you track the storm as it moves on. The place that was devastated yesterday is becalmed today. Some place further up the line is now bearing the brunt of its fury.

Green Party whip Dan Boyle called on the Tánaiste Michael McDowell to withdraw remarks made in the Dáil today in which he accused Green Party chairman John Gormley of "behaving like a fascist".

HOW utterly naive is TP O’Mahony in joining writers (some of them vehemently anti-Catholic) in attacking Pope Pius XII for not condemning the Nazis for their oppression of the Jewish people (Irish Examiner, September 12).

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday strongly denied his reputation for bluntness and controversy could damage the Government after he becomes Tánaiste.

RICHARD BRUTON’S smile as he was shaking hands with Justice Minister Michael McDowell outside Leinster House in Dublin this week was understandable.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell must be the first politician ever in the history of the State to have issued an apology with a shelf life shorter than the lifespan of a mayfly, and that’s usually a single day.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell sees himself as a Minister of Information who must censor all press releases issued by TDs, the Dáil heard today.

THE bitter row between Michael McDowell and Fine Gael over garda figures re-ignited last night after the Justice Minister sent a letter to all 220 TDs and Sentators standing over his figures.

SOON Michael McDowell will run out of Nazi and communist comparisons for the sinister forces lined up against him.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell was plunged into fresh controversy last night when the opposition reacted furiously to his plans to introduce a huge raft of late amendments to tough criminal justice legislation.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell crossed the floor of the Dáil yesterday to shake hands with Fine Gael deputy leader Richard Bruton, a day after comparing him to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

The Minister for Justice was this evening been forced to make his second apology in 24 hours.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has apologised for comparing Fine Gael deputy leader Richard Bruton to a Nazi during an outburst to reporters in Dublin yesterday.

OPPOSITION parties angrily rounded on Justice Minister Michael McDowell yesterday after he compared Fine Gael deputy leader Richard Bruton to the notorious Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels during a row over the level of garda resources in Dublin.

MICHAEL McDowell came under pressure to apologise for two separate sets of remarks yesterday.