Editing Good Neighbor policy (section)

===Policy===
In an effort to denounce past U.S. interventionism and subdue any subsequent fears of Latin Americans, Roosevelt announced on March 4, 1933, during his inaugural address, "In the field of World policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor, the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others, the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a World of neighbors."<ref>{{cite book |last=Roosevelt |first=Franklin Delano |title=First Inaugural Address |location=Washington DC |date=4 Mar 1933}}</ref> In order to create a friendly relationship between the United States and Central as well as South American countries, Roosevelt sought to abstain from asserting military force in the region.<ref>Good Neighbor Policy, 1933 –1921–1936 – Milestones – Office of the Historian (Good Neighbor Policy, 1933 –1921–1936 – Milestones – Office of the Historian) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/good-neighbor</ref> This position was affirmed by [[Cordell Hull]], Roosevelt's [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] at a conference of American states in [[Montevideo]] in December 1933. Hull said: "No country has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another."<ref>{{cite book |last=LaFeber |first=Walter |author-link=Walter LaFeber |year=1994 |title=The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to Present |edition=2nd |location=New York |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |isbn=0393964744 |page=376}}</ref> Roosevelt then confirmed the policy in December of the same year: "The definite policy of the [[United States]] from now on is one opposed to armed intervention."<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Nixon |editor-first=Edgar B |title=Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs |volume=I |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=[[Harvard University Press|Belknap Press]] |lccn=68-25617 |pages=559–560}}</ref>