Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1934)

Treaty of relations

Signed	May 29, 1934
Location	Washington
Effective	June 9, 1934
Signatories	Cuba  United States
Citations	48 Stat. 1682; TS 866; 6 Bevans 1161
Abrogated the Treaty of Relations of 1903 (TS 437; 6 Bevans 1116).

The Cuban–American Treaty of Relations took effect on June 9, 1934. It abrogated the Treaty of Relations of 1903.

Background

The Platt Amendment authorized the president of the U.S. to withdraw American troops from Cuba once he secured several specific promises from Cuba by treaty. Those commitments on the part of Cuba were secured in May 1903 when Cuba and the United States signed a Treaty of Relations in which Cuba committed to:

1. not permit a foreign power to obtain a naval base on the island
2. not go into excessive debt
3. grant the US the right to intervene in Cuba for the maintenance of (an adequate) government
4. approve all prior military actions by the United States
5. take measures to reduce infectious diseases
6. determine sovereignty over the Isle of Pines by a later treaty^{[lower-alpha 1]}
7. lease lands for naval stations to the United States

The 1934 treaty

In 1934, another Treaty of Relations superseded the 1903 treaty. Both parties agreed to abrogate the 1903 treaty except that Cuba agreed to continue to recognize as lawful all prior military actions taken by the United States and affirmed with certain modifications the U.S. lease of land for a naval base unless modified or abrogated by mutual consent.^[1] With respect to the Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba affirmed its territory unless changed by mutual consent or abandoned by the U.S. and agreed to allow the base to be quarantined in time of contagion.

One motivation for the 1934 Treaty of Relations was to remove the irritating provisions of the 1903 Treaty, as part of Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy. Provisions of the 1903 Treaty were seen to be an affront to Cuban sovereignty.

See also

• Guantánamo Bay
• Cuba-United States relations, a history

Notes

1. The United States recognized the Isle of Pines in the Hay-Quesada Treaty of 1926.

References

1. Tucker, Spencer (2009). The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 265–266. ISBN 978-1-85109-951-1.

• Woolsey, Lester H. (July 1934). "The New Cuban Treaty". The American Journal of International Law 28 (3): 530–34. Retrieved February 10, 2016.

External links

• Cuban-American treaty, 1903 (full text)
• Lease text, 1903 (full text)
• Cuban-American treaty, 1934, reaffirming the above (full text)