At 08:01 AM 2/17/2008, Brad Johnston wrote:
>In context, do the five 'had's belong in or out?
>  "Beyond containment, the major thrust of American Cold War 
> diplomatic foreign policy was to return the defeated enemies, 
> Germany and Japan, to the emerging international system as 
> full-fledged members. This task, unprecedented in respect to 
> nations on which unconditional surrender (had been) was imposed 
> less than five years earlier, made sense to a generation of 
> American leaders whose formative experience (had been) was 
> overcoming the Great Depression of the 1930s. The generation that 
> organized resistance to the Soviet Union (had) experienced Franklin 
> D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which (had) restored political stability 
> by closing the gap between American expectations and economic 
> reality. The same generation (had) prevailed in World War II, 
> fought in the name of democracy."

DD: Sounds better with all the "hads." Sequence of tense sort of stuff? 

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