History of the Harry Hopkins Short Snorter
(Provided courtesy of Gary Schulze)

Harry Hopkins was FDR's closest advisor. By the summer of 1942, Britain had suffered through the London Blitz
and the Soviet Union was battling 3 million German soldiers on Russian soil. Both allies had their back to the
wall and needed America's help. Roosevelt and his senior advisors wanted to launch an attack against Hitler
on the European mainland. Churchill and his generals wanted to invade North Africa first. On July 25, 1942,
Roosevelt wired Harry Hopkins in London and told him a decision had been reached - the Allies would attack
the Germans in North Africa. Many of the leaders at the London Conference, including Eisenhower and
Averill Harriman, signed Hopkins short snorter. Ironically, General Marshal and Admiral King, who were
at the meeting with Hopkins in London, did not sign it, presumably because they were against the decision.
Hopkins then carried the 10 shilling note to the Casablanca Conference six months later where he collected
more signatures, including Churchill, Patton, H.R. Alexander, and Mountbatten. By then, the landings in
North Africa had proved successful and the Allies now called for the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy
and Japan. Roosevelt's signature was added in Trinidad en route to Casablanca. Roosevelt did not want his
Secretary of State at the Casablanca Conference so he talked Churchill into not bringing his Foreign Secretary,
Anthony Eden, to the meeting. Hopkins added Eden's signature to the short snorter later on in Washington, D.C.

Harry Hopkins' short snorter was created as a unique record of two of the turning points of the
Second World War - America's decision on how to join the fight and the Allies' decision on how to end it.
It was also an intimate record of friendship and trust, of a special relationship between Britain and
the United States. It was this relationship which would ultimately help defeat Hitler.

Below is a link to the research which the PBS "History Detectives" did for their program
about the Harry Hopkins Short Snorter. It references the trip FDR made from Washington to
Trinidad en route to Casablanca....
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/pdf/502_shortsnorter.pdf
Harry Hopkins Short Snorter
The Short Snorter Project
Bank of England Ten Shillings - Serial #: O71D 528384               Submitted by: Gary Schulze          Date Posted: 8.08.07
This note was featured on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) television show "History Detectives" and was originally
owned by Harry Hopkins. The snorter is dated July 25, 1942, the date President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided with our
Allies to invade North Africa. A transcript of the TV program can be found on the History Detectives web site.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - General, U.S. Army

Averell Harriman - F.D.R.’s liaison to Josef Stalin of Russia

Stephen Early - F.D.R.’s Press Secretary

Harry Butcher - Captain, U.S. Navy, Aide to Eisenhower

Kathleen Harriman - Press Correspondent

Anthony Biddle - U.S. Ambassador to Poland

Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister

Stan Stanton - Famous Braniff pilot of the 1930's.

Hal Blackburn - Co-Pilot, Pan Am Flight to Casablanca

H.C. Loomis  (Unidentified...send me an email if you know)

Hoyt S. Vandenburg - General, U.S. Army Air Corps

J.D. Love - Press Correspondent

George Durno - INS White House Press Correspondent

F. Langer - Press Correspondent

J.B. Olendorf - Admiral, U.S. Navy, Battle of Leyte Gulf

Franklin D. Roosevelt - President of the United States

D. Ray Comish,  - Pan American Flight Engineer on F.D.R.'s
        flight to the Casablanca Conference

G.A. Bisbee, - Pan American Crew Member on F.D.R.'s flight
         to the Casablanca Conference

Elliott Roosevelt - Colonel, U.S. Army, son of F.D.R.
Mattie A. Pinetti, 1st Officer, WAAC, worked in the
London office of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.


Arlene Dreznal, WAAC (Womens Auxilliary Army Corps)

H.R. Alexander, Deputy Commander-In-Chief of
OPERATION TORCH

Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral, later Governor of India

George S. Patton, Jr., General, U.S. Army, Commanding
Officer of the 3rd Army

Robert D. Murphy, F.D.R.’s Personal Envoy to North Africa

Ross T. McIntire, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Personal Physician
to F.D.R.

John McCrae, Captain, U.S. Navy, Military Aide to F.D.R.

F. J. Terry, Chief Yeoman, U.S. Navy

Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister










Gary graciously sent me a reference to Winston Churchill
and  short snorters from General Mark Clark's book,
Calculated Risk,  published by Harper & Row in 1948...
.                               .....click here to view.....
Robert Murphy
Royal Banquet given by the Sultan of Morocco for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill during the
1943 Casablanca Conference. Several individuals in the photograph signed the Harry Hopkins' short snorter.
(Photo courtesy of Gary Schulze)
Harry Hopkins
Crown
Hassan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchil
Sultan of Morocco
Elliott Roosevelt
John McCrae
George S. Patton
In February 1945, 15-year-old Robert Hopkins accompanied his father, Harry, to the Yalta Conference.
He later wrote about his effort to get Stalin to sign his short snorter...
Click here to read the entire article...
General Nogues,
governor- general
of French Morocco
Grand
Vizier of
Morocco
Chief of
Protocol of
Morocco