|Roosevelt's enunciation of the Good Neighbor Policy had two
immediate effects. The first was the abrogation of the Platt
Amendment, which had granted a unilaterial right for the US to
intervene in Cuba. The second was the signing of the Montevideo
Accords at the 1933 Pan-American Conference. Articles 1-9, plus
the US reservations, are the key: how significantly did this
document differ from past US practices? And did the reservations
nullify the US assent?| BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA WHEREAS a convention on rights and duties of States was
adopted by the Seventh International Conference of American
States at Montevideo, Uruguay, and signed on December 26, 1933,
by plenipotentiaries of the United States of America with a
reservation which the delegation of the United States of America
had presented to the plenary session of the conference on
December 22, 1933, and by plenipotentiaries of Honduras, El
Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Argentina, Venezuela,
Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Pan