32 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. ] :
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Theodor Koerner |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Baudoin I | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Karl Kobelt | | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Bonn ar + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Theodor Heuss | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | 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) |  | President Vincent Auriol | | |
 |  | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Jogjakarta r) |  | President Ahmad Sukarno |  | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Sean Thomas O´Kelly | | |
 |  | ISRAEL | (West Jerusalem qu + Tel Aviv-Jaffa in + Rehovot r) |  | President Chaim Weizmann | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Rajendra Prasad | | |
 |  | IRAQ | (Baghdad) |  | King Faysal II | | |
 |  | IRAN | (Tehran) |  | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | | |
 |  | ICELAND | (Reykjavik a + Alftanes r) |  | President Sveinn Bjornsson |  | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi | | |
 |  | LEBANON | (Beirut a) |  | President Bechara El-Khoury | | |
 |  | CEYLON | (Colombo a + Kandy r) |  | King George VI | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duchess Charlotte | | |
 |  | MONACO | (Monaco q) |  | Prince Rainier III | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Juliana | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Quezon City a + Manila l + Baguio City s) |  | President Elpidio Quirino | | |
 |  | PAKISTAN | (Karachi) |  | Ghulam Muhammad | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav VI Adolphe | | |
 |  | SYRIA | (Damascus) |  | Fawzi al-Selu | | |
 |  | THAILAND | (Bangkok) |  | King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Celal Bayar | | |
 |  | 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 | | |
