Sometime during the ten days of the meeting, General Patton had
the opportunity to meet with most of the participants and, in
some cases, have them sign a dollar bill creating what was
commonly known as a Short-Snorter. A Short-Snorter was a single
or series of bank notes upon which friends and acquaintances
wrote their names as a remembrance. This tradition was
relatively wide spread during the late 1930s with trans-ocean
airline pilots, as well as the military, and continued into the
World War II period.
It was occasionally connected with a drinking game, which the
person who had lost or forgotten their Short-Snorter, or who had
the least number of names on it, bought the first round of
drinks.
Although Patton apparently did not invite the two primary players
to sign, those signatures he does represent a number of the
important attendees. It was found in his effects after his death
and was donated to the Patton Museum in the late 1990s.
Signatures reading from top to bottom:
- George C. Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff
- Henry H. Arnold, LTG in command of the USAAF
- Elliott Roosevelt, Lieutenant, US Army, Aide de Camp to FDR
- Lord Louis Mountbatten, Head of Combined Operations
- Harry Hopkins, Diplomat - advisor to the President
- W. Averill Harriman, Diplomat
- John G. Dill, Field Marshall, Chief of Imperial British Staff
- Michael F. Reilly, Chief of White House Secret Service Contingent
- Unknown signature
- Unknown signature
- Ned Dickson
- Omar N. Bradley, Major General - probably signed after the fact in late 1943
Signatures reverse side:
- E. F. Van Doren, Captain, Trans-World Airlines
- Peter Ross, Grenadier Guards, British Army
- Unknown
- Wilber Kaslow