...Seventh Pan-American Conference in Montevideo the United States agreed to a convention that stated that "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another."1 In the same month the new president made his position clear: "The maintenance of constitutional...

...of its existence as a person under international law." And in article 8, the convention continued: "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another." It is also interesting to recall what President Roosevelt said on that occasion: The definite policy...

...States held in 1933, the United States finally accepted the principle of nonintervention. The wording that "no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another" was included in the Convention on Rights and Duties of States and accepted by the United States.37...

...Rights and Duties of States adopted at the Montevideo Conference? That provision reads as follows: ,No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.' At Buenos Aires [1936], the twenty-one countries participating declared: .Intervention by one State...

...of international law.70 Article 8 of the Montevideo Convention is clear on the point as it provides that no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another. Indeed, all aspects of international law, especially treaty law and state practice, on state sovereignty...

...Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull supported a pact declaring, "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another." FDR added two days later: "The definite policy of the US from now on is one opposed to armed intervention."...