gand
- n port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
- Faithful Wey- gand never left him, carries on today as Vice-President of the Higher War Council, highest peacetime post.
- The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications to the sea and to force Wey-gand's main retreat southeastward.
- General Wey gand, actually directing military opera tions, kept himself prudently concealed in the shadow of the Military Governor of Lyons.