41 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 Karl Renner |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra al + Melbourne r + Sydney r) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels al + Bruges j) |  | Regent Prince Charles |  | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | Georgi Dimitrov |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Eurico Gaspar Dutra |  | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Enrico Celio |  | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla |  | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | Rudolf Slansky |  | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | President Ramon Grau San Martin |  | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Frankfort on the Main n) |  | Hermann Josef Puender |  | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen as + Hillerod r) |  | King Frederick IX |  | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | King Farouk I |  | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco |  | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Juho Kusti Paasikivi |  | |
 |  | FRENCH UNION | (Paris a) |  | President Vincent Auriol |  | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | King Paul I |  | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | Matyas Rakosi |  | |
 |  | EIRE | (Dublin) |  | President Sean Thomas O'Kelly |  | |
 |  | ICELAND | (Reykjavik a + Alftanes r) |  | President Sveinn Bjornsson |  | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi |  | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo an + Kyoto r + Nasu s + Numazu s + Hayama w) |  | Emperor Hirohito |  | |
 |  | LEBANON | (Beirut a) |  | President Bechara El-Khoury |  | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duchess Charlotte |  | |
 |  | MONACO | (Monaco q) |  | Prince Louis II |  | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Miguel Aleman Valdez |  | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlmr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Wilhelmina |  | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII |  | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero |  | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Wladyslaw Gomulka |  | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Oscar Carmona |  | |
 |  | RUMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |  | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav V |  | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow a + Kuntsevo r + Sochi s) |  | Joseph Stalin |  | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ismet Inonu |  | |
 |  | CHINA | (Nanking a) |  | President Chiang Kai-Shek |  | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia a + Arlington m) |  | President Harry Truman |  | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | Marshal Josip Broz Tito |  | |
 |  | UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria aem + Cape Town l) |  | King George VI |  | |