33 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 Edelmiro Julian Farrell |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Karl Renner |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | Regent Prince Charles | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | Kimon Georgiev | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) | | King George VI |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Karl Kobelt | | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | President Edvard Benes | | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | President Ramon Grau San Martin | | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Frankfort on the Main a) |  | Rudolf Mueller | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Christian X | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | King Farouk I |  | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Juho Kusti Paasikivi | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | Felix Gouin | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | Regent Archbishop Damaskinos | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | Matyas Rakosi | | |
 |  | EIRE | (Dublin) |  | President Sean Thomas O´Kelly | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s) |  | Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell |  | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | King Victor Emmanuel III | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Hirohito | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Wilhelmina | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | NEW ZEALAND | (Wellington) | | King George VI | | |
 |  | RUMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | King Michael I | | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh) |  | King Abdul Aziz bin Saud | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav V | | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow a + Sochi s) |  | Joseph Stalin | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ismet Inonu | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Chungking t + Nanking c) |  | Chiang Kai-Shek | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | King George VI | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Harry Truman | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | Marshal Josip Broz Tito | | |
