Name	Best, Robert
Alternative Names	fictional character: James Drew
ID	6561
Gender	male
Lifespan	1896-04 - 1952-12
Professions	journalist (Q1930187), foreign correspondent, American

Collection(s)	manually created entity webclient
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/6561/
Notes	Robert Best was born in South Carolina. From 1922 onwards, he worked for the United Press in Vienna. He was chiefly responsible for organizing the regular table of journalists and foreign correspondents at Café Louvre, which became an essential meeting and networking place during the interwar years. Following the Anschluss, he contineued reporting for the United Press until 1941. After Germany declared war on the U.S., he was incarcerated and supposed to return to the States in 1942; however, he refused to leave. Instead, he volunteered to be a propagandist for the Germans. According to his former colleague, William Shirer, he also became violently anti-Semitic during this time. In 1946, he was finally transported back to the United States as a prisoner for treason and convicted in 1948. He died in prison in 1952. (see Durning, Dan. “Vienna’s Café Louvre in the 1920s & 1930s: Meeting Place for Foreign Correspondents.” (2012))