711.3712Anti-War/4
The Ambassador in Cuba (Judah) to the Secretary of
State
Habana, August 30,
1928.
[Received September 5.]
No. 414
Sir: With reference to my despatch No. 413
of August 29, 1928,31 I have the honor to transmit herewith for the
Department’s information a copy of a note just received from the
Cuban Under Secretary of State in connection with the adherence of
Cuba to the Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War,
together with a copy of an enclosure therewith comprising certain
remarks of President Machado on this subject, and my reply
thereto,32
as well as translations of the first two documents.
I have [etc.]
[Page 165]
[Enclosure—Translation]
The Cuban Under Secretary of State
(Campa) to the American
Ambassador (Judah)
Habana, August 29,
1928.
No. 858
Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s note dated August 27th,
informing me, in behalf of your Government, that on that date
there had been signed in Paris a treaty whereby the governments
of Germany, the United States, Belgium, France, Great Britain,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the
Irish Free State, India, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia
renounce war as an instrument of national policy in their mutual
relations and bind themselves to submit the arrangement of all
differences which may arise in the future between them to
pacific means of solution.
Although in the Note Verbale of this
Department dated the 28th I expressed to Your Excellency the
opinion of this Government with regard to this Treaty and its
intention to adhere thereto as soon as the protocol for the
signing thereof provided in Article Three should be opened in
Washington, today, in behalf of the Government of the Republic I
am able to inform you that on proposal of the President of the
Republic, the Cabinet resolved formally to adhere to the Treaty
as soon as possible, for which purpose, telegraphic instructions
were transmitted to the Chargé d’Affaires at Washington. I must
add that immediately after said resolution was approved, the
Cabinet Meeting adjourned, thereby paying a marked homage to the
signing of said Pact, which will undoubtedly mark an epoch in
the Destiny of Nations.
I also desire to express to Your Excellency the appreciation of
this Department for supplying it with the English and French
texts of said Pact.
Permit me to enclose a copy of the declarations of President
Machado, made today at the termination of the Cabinet meeting,
which express his absolute identification and that of the people
of Cuba with this peace policy set forth in the Paris Treaty and
from which justice and well-being are to be derived for all the
nations.
I avail myself [etc.]
[Subenclosure—Translation]
Statement by President Machado
The Republic of Cuba will adhere to the multilateral treaty
signed in Paris on August 27th, called the Kellogg Pact, whereby
the nations [Page 166] condemn
war as a system of solving international controversies and bind
themselves to use pacific means in the case of a
disagreement.
For more than three years my Government has collaborated
sincerely in the efforts made by humanity to organize peace.
Our diplomatic action, active and persevering, was shown to be
such in every international conference, whether it was
universal, such as the League of Nations, or regional, such as
the Sixth International American Conference of Habana.
I am convinced of the effectiveness of this agreement which will
join the nations by sacred ties, and which is to serve as a
foundation for the beneficial interests of peace, just as in the
past other treaties created motives for hatred and for violence
which carried states toward pain and ruin.
Blessed be this America of ours from which has come forth this
admirable gesture of concord which will favor the pacific
development of the human race, making it impossible for the work
of collective labor in which every nation has its share and
responsibility to be destroyed in an insane hour of greed or
madness!
