Sir: Christopher Coker's acknowledgment of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the
West marks an informed departure from the gen- eral ignorance of his work, except for an occasional ill-informed or trivial notice such as the falsehood in several current works of 'reference' that he was 'admired by the Nazis'.
The pre-eminent prescience of Spengler is well illustrated by his warning of an even- tual alliance between underclass anarchy and 'coloured outbreaks' that would 'make an 'end of the white world'. In an exact anticipation of the present movement for an 'anti-racist and multicultural society', he wrote in 1933:
It would make no difference if the voice of Moscow ceased to dictate. It has done its work, and the work goes forward by itself.
In fact, I would challenge your readers to cite a single important prediction made by this writer that has been contradicted, rather than fulfilled, by events.
Wade Smith
Logris House, Sheringham, Norfolk
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