27 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 |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Getulio Vargas | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Carlos Ibanez del Campo | | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | Fulgencio Batista |  | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Bonn ar + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Theodor Heuss |  | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Frederick IX | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | Muhammad Naguib |  | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco | | |
 |  | FRENCH UNION | (Paris) |  | President Vincent Auriol | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | King Paul I | | |
 |  | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Jogjakarta r) |  | President Ahmad Sukarno |  | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Hirohito | | |
 |  | MONACO | (Monaco q) |  | Prince Rainier III | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Juliana | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Boleslaw Bierut | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Francisco Craveiro Lopes | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav VI Adolphe | | |
 |  | 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 Dwight David Eisenhower | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Andres Martinez Trueba | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | President Josip Broz Tito | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
