26 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 |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Eurico Gaspar Dutra | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) | | King George VI |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Philipp Etter |  | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | President Edvard Benes | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Christian X | | |
 |  | DOMINICAN | (Ciudad Trujillo) |  | President Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco | | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | Emperor Ras Tafari Haile Selassie I |  | |
 |  | EIRE | (Dublin) |  | President Sean Thomas O´Kelly | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s) |  | Viceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten |  | |
 |  | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) |  | President William Tubman | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Miguel Aleman Valdez | | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Anastasio Somoza Garcia | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero | | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Manila a + Baguio City s) |  | President Manuel Roxas | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Wladyslaw Gomulka | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Oscar Carmona | | |
 |  | PARAGUAY | (Assumption) |  | President Higinio Morinigo | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav V | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ismet Inonu | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Nanking a) |  | Chiang Kai-Shek | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | King George VI | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Harry Truman | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l) | | King George VI | | |
