as relatively uncritical of the scheme. Series 4 – Civil Volume I – The Government and the People, 1939–1941 – Paul Hasluck (1952) Volume II – The Government and the People, 1942–1945 – Paul Hasluck (1970) Volume III – War Economy, 1939–1942 – S.J. Butlin (1955) Volume IV – War Economy, 1942–1945 – S.J. Butlin and C. B. Schedvin (1977) Volume V – The Role of Science and Industry – David P. Mellor (1958) Long considered the inclusion of Ernest Scott's volume on Australia During the War to be an "unorthodox characteristic" of Bean's series, but by the time Long started planning the Second World War series there was no doubt that volumes on the "Home front" would be included. Like Scott's volume, these took the longest to write. The first, Paul Hasluck's The Government and the People, 1939–1941 appeared in 1952, but Hasluck was elected as the member for Curtin at the 1949 election, and served as a cabinet minister until 1969. His ministerial duties delayed the second volume, which was not published until after Hasluck became Governor-General. Hasluck's ability to provide an unbiased account when he was a Liberal politician did not escape critical comment, but historians tend to judge his work as "fair and accurate". In the end, Hasluck's biases tended to be personal rather than partisan. He admired John Curtin as a fellow Western Australian and Robert Menzies as a fellow Liberal, and clung to his belief in parliamentary democracy despite its near demise during the war. The economic volumes by Sydney Butlin suffered a similar fate; after the first volume appeared in 1955, Butlin became increasing involved in administration at the University of Sydney. The second volume, co-authored with Boris Schedvin, finally appeared shortly before Butlin's death in 1977. The other volume of the series, David Mellor's The Role of Science and Industry, was the most unusual volume of all, and still stands unique in Australian official war histories in its subject, although Mellor was criticised for hewing too closely to the views of his sources, particularly Major General John O'Brien, the Deputy Master General of the Ordnance. Series 5 – Medical Volume I – Clinical Problems of War – Allan S. Walker (1952) Volume II – Middle East and Far East – Allan S. Walker (1953) Volume III – The Island Campaigns – Allan S. Walker (1957) Volume IV – Medical Services of the