31 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 |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Theodor Koerner |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Getulio Vargas | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Rodolphe Rubattel | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Carlos Ibanez del Campo | | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | Antonin Novotny | | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Bonn ar + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Theodor Heuss | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Frederick IX | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Juho Kusti Paasikivi | | |
 |  | FRENCH UNION | (Paris) |  | President Rene Coty | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | Matyas Rakosi | | |
 |  | ISRAEL | (West Jerusalem qu + Tel Aviv-Jaffa i) |  | President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi |  | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Rajendra Prasad | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Hirohito | | |
 |  | NORTH KOREA | (Pyongyang a) |  | Kim Il-Sung | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Syngman Rhee | | |
 |  | MONGOLIA | (Ulan-Bator) |  | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | | |
 |  | 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 Ramon Magsaysay | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Boleslaw Bierut | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Francisco Craveiro Lopes | | |
 |  | RUMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow) |  | Nikita Khrushchev | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Celal Bayar | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Dwight David Eisenhower |  | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | President Josip Broz Tito | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l) | | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
