had accepted seat in a 50-member Consejo Nacional that the claimant declared him one of key rebels against his authority and expulsed them from Comunión Tradicionalista. Arellano together with López Bassa co-headed Comisión de Organización Sindical, set up by the Falangist Secretariato; the body was entrusted with drafting theoretical framework for labor organization in the new regime. At this position Arellano pursued a Traditionalist corporative vision, but he was confronted by hard-line Falangist members like Joaquín Miranda and Pedro González Bueno, who advanced their idea of sindicatos verticales. As in December 1937 the Secretariat ceased to function and Arellano moved to new job, his plans were eventually dumped. When in early 1938 Rodezno assumed Ministry of Justice in the first Francoist government, Arellano followed him as sub-secretary - the post initially offered to José María Valiente, but rejected - and held it until the cabinet was reorganized and Rodezno replaced by Esteban Bilbao in August 1939; 70 years later this service cost him charge of committing crimes against humanity He was getting increasingly disillusioned with the new party, trying to save what was left of Carlist assets and becoming shareholder of El Pensamiento Navarro, spared amalgamation by turning it into a commercial newspaper. During his last months in Consejo Nacional he tried to oppose regulations aiming at total state control of the economy. As his mandate was not renewed, in the early 1940s he fell out of the Francoist political elite. Little is known about Arellano's public activity in the 1940s; holding no official posts he remained an important figure in Navarrese political realm, especially that his promoter Rodezno was at that time vice-president of Diputación Provincial. Apart from his engagement in private businesses, Arellano was legal assessor of the Navarrese self-government, got involved in work on setting up Institución Principe de Viana and remained busy assembling compilation of traditional local regulations, commissioned by the Diputación. In the mid-1940s he was involved in promotion of fuerista establishments, climaxing in congress of regionalist lawyers in Montserrat. Though outside intransigent Carlism headed by don Javier, he remained one of key figures in the wider Traditionalist realm. Along Rodezno he formed the faction advocating that don Juan, son of the deposed Alfonso XIII, is considered a legitimate Carlist heir. Among other so-called Juanistas Arellano visited him in the Estoril residence in 1946. He co-drafted Bases de Estoril, a document signed by don Juan;