Editing Christmas Uprising (section)

===International response===
In the spring of 1919, the [[United States]] sent [[Charles W. Furlong]] as an envoy from the Peace Commission to Montenegro. Furlong reported to ''[[The New York Times]]'' in an interview published on June 15, 1919, that the electors in the Podgorica Assembly acted as [[carpetbaggers]] did in the United States.{{sfn|Woodhouse|Woodhouse|1920|p=110}}

An initiative called the Inter-Allied Commission of Investigation monitored the Podgorica Assembly and the [[Whites (Montenegro)|Whites]] after the uprising. It included [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]], as well as lieutenants from the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], and [[Italy]]. They recorded that there were as few as 500 unionist troops in Montenegro, and that they were not exclusively Serbian but from other constituents of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The commission also concluded from interviewing Greens held as prisoners that the uprising had been "caused by agents of [[King Nicholas I]] and supported by some emissaries from Italy."{{sfn|Woodhouse|Woodhouse|1920|p=111}}