 Even in the so-called Western Outlands ceded by Bulgaria in 1920 Bulgarian identification was prohibited.The Bulgarian notes to the League of Nations, consented to recognize a Bulgarian minority in Yugoslavia were rejected.The members of the Council of the League assumed that the existence of some Bulgarian minority there was possible, however, they were determined to keep Yugoslavia and were aware that any exercise of revisionism, would open an uncontrollable wave of demands, turning the Balkans into a battlefield.