Early life Born in 1925, his parents were José Arnello Alcorta and Zulema Romo Romo. His maternal side made him involved in politics, world he already knew well through familiars like his uncle Luis Salas Romo, politician from
Radical Party, who was minister during the first government of
Arturo Alessandri Palma (1920–1924), whom Arnello knew when he was eight. He completed his secondary studies at
Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, where he performed as Student Center's president. Likewise, in 1941, he was one of the founding members of institution's Castilian Letters Academy (whose Spanish acronym is ALCIN) while he was in the 5th grade. There he met with Chilean important writers such as
Pablo Neruda,
Salvador Reyes and
Francisco Coloane. Around 1938–1941 seasons, he felt attraction for
nationalist ideas, so that he had sympathy towards to
National Socialist Movement of Chile, the
fascist murdered group in the
Seguro Obrero massacre (1938) under Alessandri Palma's second government (1932–1938). In early 1940s, he joined
Universidad de Chile School of Laws, receiving him with a thesis called "Syndicalism", which was approved with distinction. A time later after his certification, he reached a scholarship from Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (then controlled by
francoism) for a PhD in
law at
University of Madrid. This time his thesis (made in 1953) was called "El sindicato español" (
the Spanish syndicate), which was influenced by
National syndicalists political ideas of the Spanish fascist party
FET y de las JONS (commonly known as Falange; 1937–1977). ==References==