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Brad,
>    Whether or not these "had"'s should be included is a context sensitive
> issue. I would say that a typical audience for this kind of analysis is
> larwasedy aware that the cold war was preceeded by the depression and
> world war II and certainly understood that Germany and japan were
> defeated in World War II and tha>
>
>  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."
>>
>>
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