Ruth Sarles Benedict (January 28, 1906 – September 6, 1996) was an American anti-war activist, researcher and journalist. She worked for theNational Council for Prevention of War as an editor and theAmerica First Committee as head of research in the 1930s,^[1] and as a reporter forThe Washington Daily News in the 1940s.^[2] From 1949 to 1960, she worked for theUnited States Department of State.^[2] In 1958, Benedict and her husband,Bertram Benedict, traveled to South Asia, particularlyIndia, on behalf of theUnited States Information Agency, where she gave speeches on college campuses.^[3]

A book about the American First Committee authored by Benedict but edited posthumously byBill Kauffman, with an introduction, was published in 2003.^[4]

• Sarles, Ruth (2003).Kauffman, Bill (ed.).A Story of America First: The Men and Women who Opposed U.S. Intervention in World War II. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.ISBN 9780275975128.OCLC 716878310.

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