Taking "bargaining chip" to 1953. 9 May, 1953 _Lethbridge(Alberta) Herald_ 22/4 <<There is a third reason, whch Ernest Bevin warned of in the Commons as far back as 1948: that Russia has been holding up an Austrian treaty so as to use it as a bargaining chip in other matters such as Trieste, Germany, and now Korea.>> Sam Clements