Selective confidential reportage backfired on the colonial official

Evidence

But who was to be trusted? He did not want his condemnation to become public. It was only for certain ears, to protect “our name.” Selective reportage proved to be a poor option and Valck paid dearly for it. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1435

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