48 Members (excluding the associate or suspended members but including the countries represented on their behalf) [The rulers are not necessarily the representatives in the organisation. ] :
 |  | ARGENTINE | (Buenos Aires a + Olivos r) |  | President Juan Peron |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Theodor Koerner |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Baudoin I | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | Vulko Chervenkov | | |
 |  | BOLIVIA | (Sucre cj + La Paz eir) |  | President Victor Paz Estenssoro | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Getulio Vargas | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Karl Kobelt | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla | | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Bogota) |  | President Laureano Gomez | | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | Klement Gottwald | | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | Fulgencio Batista |  | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Bonn ar + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Theodor Heuss | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Frederick IX | | |
 |  | DOMINICAN | (Ciudad Trujillo) |  | Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo | | |
 |  | ECUADOR | (San Francisco of Quito) |  | President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Juho Kusti Paasikivi | | |
 |  | FRENCH UNION | (Paris) |  | President Vincent Auriol | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | King Paul I | | |
 |  | GUATEMALA | (Guatemala City) |  | President Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzman | | |
 |  | HAITI | (Port Au Prince) |  | President Nemours Pierre-Louis | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | Matyas Rakosi | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Rajendra Prasad |  | |
 |  | IRAN | (Tehran) |  | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Hirohito | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duchess Charlotte | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Miguel Aleman Valdez | | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Anastasio Somoza Garcia | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Juliana | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | PANAMA | (Panama City) |  | President Jose Antonio Remon Cantera | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | President Manuel Arturo Odria | | |
 |  | PAKISTAN | (Karachi) |  | Ghulam Muhammad | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Boleslaw Bierut | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Francisco Craveiro Lopes | | |
 |  | PARAGUAY | (Assumption) |  | President Federico Chaves | | |
 |  | RUMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav VI Adolphe | | |
 |  | EL SALVADOR | (San Salvador) |  | President Oscar Osorio | | |
 |  | THAILAND | (Bangkok) |  | King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Celal Bayar | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Taipeh t) |  | President Chiang Kai-Shek | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) |  | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Harry Truman | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Andres Martinez Trueba | | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | German Suarez Flamerich | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | Marshal Josip Broz Tito | | |
