44 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 al + Melbourne r + Sydney r) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels al + Bruges j) |  | Regent Prince Charles |  | |
 |  | BOLIVIA | (Sucre cj + La Paz eir) |  | President Gualberto Villarroel |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Rio de Janeiro) |  | President Jose Linhares |  | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Juan Antonio Rios |  | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Bogota) |  | Alberto Lleras Camargo |  | |
 |  | COSTA RICA | (San Jose) |  | President Teodoro Picado Michalski |  | |
 |  | CZECHOSLOVAKIA | (Prague a) |  | President Edvard Benes |  | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | President Ramon Grau San Martin |  | |
 |  | DOMINICAN | (Ciudad Trujillo) |  | President Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo |  | |
 |  | ECUADOR | (San Francisco of Quito) |  | President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra |  | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | King Farouk I |  | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | Emperor Ras Tafari Haile Selassie I |  | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris a) |  | Felix Gouin |  | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | Regent Archbishop Damaskinos |  | |
 |  | GUATEMALA | (Guatemala City) |  | President Juan Jose Arevalo |  | |
 |  | HONDURAS | (Tegucigalpa a + Comayaguela c) |  | President Tiburcio Carias Andino |  | |
 |  | HAITI | (Port Au Prince) |  | President Franck Lavaud |  | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s) |  | Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell |  | |
 |  | IRAQ | (Baghdad a) |  | King Faysal II |  | |
 |  | IRAN | (Tehran a + Qum y) |  | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi |  | |
 |  | ICELAND | (Reykjavik a + Alftanes r) |  | President Sveinn Bjornsson |  | |
 |  | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) |  | President William Tubman |  | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duchess Charlotte |  | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Manuel Avila Camacho |  | |
 |  | NICARAGUA | (Managua) |  | President Anastasio Somoza Garcia |  | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Wilhelmina |  | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Haakon VII |  | |
 |  | NEW ZEALAND | (Wellington) |  | King George VI |  | |
 |  | PANAMA | (Panama City) |  | President Enrique Adolfo Jimenez Brin |  | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima) |  | President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero |  | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Manila a + Baguio City s) |  | President Sergio Osmena |  | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | Wladyslaw Gomulka |  | |
 |  | PARAGUAY | (Assumption) |  | President Higinio Morinigo |  | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow a + Sochi s) |  | Joseph Stalin |  | |
 |  | EL SALVADOR | (San Salvador) |  | President Salvador Castaneda Castro |  | |
 |  | CHINA | (Chungking t + Nanking c) |  | 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 Juan Jose de Amezaga |  | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | Romulo Betancourt |  | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | Marshal Josip Broz Tito |  | |
 |  | UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l) |  | King George VI |  | |