 Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long, who was nominally in charge of refugee issues, was enraged by the granting of visas to the "Quanza" refugees and insisted that it must not occur again.Long renewed his efforts to block immigration, and by mid-1941, almost no war refugees were allowed into the US.In 1991, Susan Lieberman and Jacob Morewitz's grandson Stephen Morewitz wrote a play about the events titled "Steamship Quanza".