37 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 Karl Renner |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | Regent Prince Charles | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | Georgi Dimitrov | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Eurico Gaspar Dutra | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) | | King George VI |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Ernst Nobs | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla | | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | Rudolf Slansky | | |
 |  | WEST GERMANY | (Frankfort on the Main n) |  | Hermann Josef Puender | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | King Frederick IX | | |
 |  | ECUADOR | (San Francisco of Quito) |  | President Galo Plaza Lasso | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | Caudillo Francisco Franco | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Juho Kusti Paasikivi | | |
 |  | FRENCH UNION | (Paris) |  | President Vincent Auriol | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | Matyas Rakosi | | |
 |  | EIRE | (Dublin) |  | President Sean Thomas O´Kelly | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Luigi Einaudi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Hirohito |  | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Miguel Aleman Valdez | | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Victor Manuel Roman y Reyes | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Juliana | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | Manuel Arturo Odria | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Boleslaw Bierut | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Oscar Carmona | | |
 |  | RUMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Gustav V | | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow a + Sochi s) |  | Joseph Stalin | | |
 |  | EL SALVADOR | (San Salvador) |  | Revolutionary Council of Government | | |
 |  | SIAM | (Bangkok) |  | King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ismet Inonu | | |
 |  | 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) |  | Carlos Delgado Chalbaud | | |
