742 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Pandit M. B. Bhargava (Ajmer) : Is there any prohibition there ?
Dr. Ambedkar : I shall quote the authorities if my friend wants. I have got plenty of them. I do not want to weary the House : I am only going to give the gist.
Treaty making does include cession of territory. In the same way, apart from that particular Entry, the Entry relating to war and peace must necessarily include cession of territory because it cannot be denied that it may sometimes become necessary for a State which is at war with another foreign State, in order to establish peace, to cede a part of its territory as one of the terms and conditions of a treaty of peace. Nobody, I am sure, can challenge or deny that interpretation of the Entry relating to war and peace. Now, if in certain circumstances the Entry relating to war and peace and the Entry relating to treaty making must necessarily include cession of territory, it is quite obvious that the content of these Entries must be deemed to include cession of territory. Therefore, as against the mere fact that in the rest of the body of the Constitution, there is no specific Article conferring specific powers on Parliament to cede territory my contention is that Entries 14 and 15 are quite sufficient....
Shri Kamath (Madhya Pradesh) : No, no.
Dr. Ambedkar: ......... to endow Parliament with the power to cede territory. My hon. friends, some of them, are shaking their heads saying that that is not correct. But, still, I hold to my view.........
Shri Kamath: We also will hold to ours.
Dr. Ambedkar: ...... that what I am submitting is a point which has been accepted by all great constitutional lawyers, and by the Supreme Court of the United States where also a similar power exists.
Shri Sidhva (Madhya Pradesh) : What about our Supreme Court?