The purpose of this was to maintain that Cuba would agree to recognize all prior U.S. military actions as lawful and allow the U.S. to maintain (Article IV and Article V) and be able to quarantine their naval base but to also nullify the provisions of the 1903 treaty, whereby the involvement of the United States in the affairs of the Cuban government impeded the sovereignty of Cuba.

The Cuban government expressed that the presence of a naval base on their island was a cause for concern on behalf of the sovereignty of the country.

They argued that the right of the United States to establish naval bases in Cuba was self-granted, being both imposed and maintained by force.

U.S. ambassador Benjamin Sumner Welles went to the American Embassy in Havana to advise Machado to restitute the constitutional guarantees.

Machado rejected this advice and in the following months a large strike took place in Havana, and soon spread throughout the entire island.

The government under Ramón Grau San Martín was never recognized by the United States, and he was forced to resign in January of 1934.

In December of 1933, Roosevelt declared: “The definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention.” [4] The Cuban-American Treaty of Relations of 1934 was signed in Washington on May 29, 1934.