46 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. ] :
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | Regent Prince Charles |  | |
 |  | BOLIVIA | (Sucre cj + La Paz eir) |  | President Enrique Hertzog |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Eurico Gaspar Dutra | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) | | King George VI |  | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla | | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Bogota) |  | President Mariano Ospina Perez | | |
 |  | COSTA RICA | (San Jose) |  | President Jose Figueres Ferrer | | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | Rudolf Slansky | | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | President Ramon Grau San Martin | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Frederick IX | | |
 |  | DOMINICAN | (Ciudad Trujillo) |  | President Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo | | |
 |  | ECUADOR | (San Francisco of Quito) |  | President Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | King Farouk I |  | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | Emperor Ras Tafari Haile Selassie I | | |
 |  | 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 Jose Arevalo | | |
 |  | HONDURAS | (Tegucigalpa a + Comayaguela c) |  | President Tiburcio Carias Andino | | |
 |  | INDIAN UNION | (New Delhi a + Simla s) |  | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari |  | |
 |  | 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 | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duchess Charlotte | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Miguel Aleman Valdez | | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Victor Manuel Roman y Reyes | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Wilhelmina | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | PANAMA | (Panama City) |  | President Enrique Adolfo Jimenez Brin | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero | | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Quezon City a + Manila l + Baguio City s) |  | President Elpidio Quirino | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Wladyslaw Gomulka | | |
 |  | PARAGUAY | (Assumption) |  | President Juan Natalicio Gonzalez | | |
 |  | EL SALVADOR | (San Salvador) |  | President Salvador Castaneda Castro | | |
 |  | SYRIA | (Damascus) |  | President Shukri al-Kuwatli | | |
 |  | 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) |  | President Harry Truman | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Luis Batlle Berres | | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | President Romulo Gallegos | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | Marshal Josip Broz Tito | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l) | | King George VI | | |
