"The first breath of freedom stirs the air." So exclaimed President Reagan in his address to the students and faculty of Moscow State University, as he commented on his talks with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Moscow Summit of June, 1988. Mr. Reagan went to Moscow as an agent of peace and a champion of human rights. The people of the U.S.S.R., who are enslaved under the Communist regime, must have the opportunity to chart their own courses in life, and Mr. Reagan envisioned himself as their ambassador of freedom in his role as a national leader.

Through the course of human history, many men and women have served in such a capacity. Corrie Ten Boom was a heroine of the anti-Nazi underground as she worked and prayed for persecuted Jews and Christians. In Civil War days, Harriet Tub…